Otávio Júnior

Scenic Rights is the audiovisual co-agency of Ediciones Ambulantes.

Otávio Júnior is a writer, an actor, a storyteller and a theatre producer from Rio de Janeiro.

He was the founder and executive coordinator of the project Ler é 10-Leia Favela, which included the opening of libraries in the favela Complexo do Alemão. Otávio Júnior worksin the children’s cultural area since 1998.  He now develops programs and activities to promote reading among the youngest people of the favelas in Rio de Janeiro. In 2011 he published his first book.

 

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Winner of the Premio Madre Teresa de Calcutá in Argentina for his community services, he was also awarded with the Prêmio Faz Diferença by the O Globo newspaper.