A pirate TV station broadcasting hope from Argentina's most famous shantytown.
URBANA TeVé is a free signal which broadcasts from the neighborhood Padre Carlos Mugica, better known as Villa 31, in Buenos Aires. A community channel for cultural and social expressions from a neighborhood where the struggle for urbanization is key for all its inhabitants.
Direction
Intimate access without poverty tourism lens.
Production
Community-built studio in a neighborhood fighting erasure.
Director
Diego Briata
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Villa 31 sits blocks from Buenos Aires' wealthiest districts, making it Argentina's most visible symbol of inequality.
The channel name 'Urbana' deliberately reclaims 'urbanization'—a government buzzword usually preceding evictions.
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