大象传媒

A construction worker dies and, instinctively, we blame him. Why wasn鈥檛 he wearing his safety belt? But what if we are wrong? What if all of us 鈥� families, colleagues, companies and society as a whole 鈥� have been failing workers who have lost their lives or been injured at work, all over the world?

22 year old Marcleudo De Melo Ferreira was working at the top ring of the Manaus World Cup Arena, in Brazil, when, at 4am on December 14th, 2013, he fell to his death.

In 鈥淔alling鈥�, 大象传媒 Brasil鈥檚 reporter and presenter M么nica Vasconcelos goes in search of the truth behind Marcleudo鈥檚 death. In the process, she learns how she herself, as a journalist, unjustly wronged Marcleudo when she reported on his death in a 大象传媒 Brasil article, published on the aftermath of the World Cup in her country. She waited four years to set things right. And in order to do so, she counts on one of the most beautiful Brazilian songs ever written, Constru莽茫o, by composer and writer Chico Buarque. She also enlists the expertise of a former Safety Inspector for the Brazilian Public Ministry of Labour, currently a professor of Economics at the Federal University of Bahia, Vitor Filgueiras. And she travels to the small country town of Limoeiro do Norte, in Northern Brazil, to gather moving, poignant testimonies by Marcleudo鈥檚 family.

Image: The Arena Amazonia in Manaus (Credit: Reuters)