Renee

"Keeping Up With MFCO" is a short film set across four days, featuring iconic locations such as The Otago Daily Times, the Otago Filming Studio, the Otago Arts Block, and various spots around the Otago campus. Directed by the talented River Scorsese, this film won the prestigious 2025 Hands On Otago Award and boasts a star-studded cast of A-list celebrities.

Six men with an ideal: to use a camera as an instrument to denounce and expose the evils of Brazilian prisons. Life inside makes the imagination of these ex-convicts take flight beyond the bars, using art as a potential instrument for social reconstruction. A docu-drama which addresses racism, prison, torture and the violation of civil rights while also crying for liberty, justice and the right to dream.