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Trailer | Skin of Glass

A filmmaker learns her architect father’s iconic design in São Paulo is occupied by unhoused people.

Aired 02/17/2025

Independent Lens

Trailer | Skin of Glass

Preview: Season 26 Episode 12 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions

A filmmaker learns her architect father’s iconic design in São Paulo is occupied by unhoused people.

A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece in São Paulo—a 24-story tall modernist icon known as “Pele de Vidro” (Skin of Glass)—is inhabited by hundreds of unhoused people. But after getting to know these occupants, what started as a personal quest becomes something much bigger.

Aired 02/17/2025

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Independent Lens

Trailer | Skin of Glass

Preview: Season 26 Episode 12 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions

A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece in São Paulo—a 24-story tall modernist icon known as “Pele de Vidro” (Skin of Glass)—is inhabited by hundreds of unhoused people. But after getting to know these occupants, what started as a personal quest becomes something much bigger.

Aired 02/17/2025

Problems with Closed Captions? Closed Captioning Feedback

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