Remix to Rio is a 2010 Canadian documentary depicting young people from Toronto, Canada and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as they create community outreach projects aimed at rescuing their peers from lives of crime.
This film follows Canada’s innovative youth outreach organization, The Remix Project as they travel to some of the most violent favelas in Rio de Janeiro and test their unique hip-hop outreach model on some of today’s most “unreachable” youth.
Remix Project co-founders Gavin Sheppard and Drex Inkredible join forces with "Sandro", an Ex-drug lord turned activist and Soldiers Never More project founder "Farina" in hopes of constructing a recording studio for disadvantaged youth in the Favela known as “The Enchanted Land” (Tera Encantada).
As the hip-hop concert at HUTUZ approaches the Remixers decide to enlist the help of some young drummers from a local music outreach program from the notoriously violent neighborhood of Vila Aliança.
It is through these enthusiastic new friends that the Remix crew discovers the real challenges and brutal violence facing the youth in Rio today.