So peeps, some of you might now I am a filmmaker who has been working on a documentary about MMA fighters in the favelas of Rio. Anyhow - the film is still in post (It's a self financed/crowd funded thing and is taking ages to get through post) but it focused on a jiu jitsu social project in a slum in Rio's south zone - home to Marlon Sandro, Eduardo Dantas and Hacran Dias etc.
Through my work I have got to know the fighters and the social project pretty well. Well enough to call them good friends. A young girl from the project is looking to compete at the IBJJF Worlds in California and is currently fundraising to do so. In fact there are three students we want to get to the IBJJF tourny.
The girl (Evellyn) has started a raffle with T-Shirts signed by Jose Aldo, Hacran Dias, Eduardo, Marlon, Johnny Eduardo, Andre Pedenerias, Renan Barao, Leo Santos and many other fighters.
Now as she is in Brazil I wanted to open the raffle up to people around the world so set up a GoFundMe (Yeah Yeah I know!) - everyone who donates ten dollars or more will get entered into the draw for the shirts that will happen live on facebook. The money goes to gettting her and possibly some other students to the IBJJF and covers flights and accommodation. This is a dream come true for kids from these communities.
Now I am not begging. I know GoFundMe's don't go down well. But the shirt is an official Heebok shirt (urgh!) so you won't wear it because it nasty and can therefore frame that bad boy - and lets face it thats a whose who of Mixed Martial Arts fighters in ink right there on that shirt!
And for all you BJJ / MMA people - I know you lot are good people helping lots of good people already. But if you do go for this you will be helping some awesome people doing awesome things in a pretty tough spot! And if not please please share the gofundme link!
To prove this is no joke I have added a video of Marlon Sandro signing one of the shirts and if you would like to learn more please visit the gofundme. I'll post more vids of the various fighters signing as and when they are sent to me.
And to be clear - I am only managing the GoFundMe. I am not touching the money and have already donated 50 UK pounds of my own (Which I should have spent on my film lol)
Thanks - please do comment and please be nice. Evellyn is too young for the banter from the likes of the OG faithful from that other site so no nastyness.
Thanks again everyone!
View: https://www.gofundme.com/favelabjj
Through my work I have got to know the fighters and the social project pretty well. Well enough to call them good friends. A young girl from the project is looking to compete at the IBJJF Worlds in California and is currently fundraising to do so. In fact there are three students we want to get to the IBJJF tourny.
The girl (Evellyn) has started a raffle with T-Shirts signed by Jose Aldo, Hacran Dias, Eduardo, Marlon, Johnny Eduardo, Andre Pedenerias, Renan Barao, Leo Santos and many other fighters.
Now as she is in Brazil I wanted to open the raffle up to people around the world so set up a GoFundMe (Yeah Yeah I know!) - everyone who donates ten dollars or more will get entered into the draw for the shirts that will happen live on facebook. The money goes to gettting her and possibly some other students to the IBJJF and covers flights and accommodation. This is a dream come true for kids from these communities.
Now I am not begging. I know GoFundMe's don't go down well. But the shirt is an official Heebok shirt (urgh!) so you won't wear it because it nasty and can therefore frame that bad boy - and lets face it thats a whose who of Mixed Martial Arts fighters in ink right there on that shirt!
And for all you BJJ / MMA people - I know you lot are good people helping lots of good people already. But if you do go for this you will be helping some awesome people doing awesome things in a pretty tough spot! And if not please please share the gofundme link!
To prove this is no joke I have added a video of Marlon Sandro signing one of the shirts and if you would like to learn more please visit the gofundme. I'll post more vids of the various fighters signing as and when they are sent to me.
And to be clear - I am only managing the GoFundMe. I am not touching the money and have already donated 50 UK pounds of my own (Which I should have spent on my film lol)
Thanks - please do comment and please be nice. Evellyn is too young for the banter from the likes of the OG faithful from that other site so no nastyness.
Thanks again everyone!
View: https://www.gofundme.com/favelabjj