I Am for Peace now in Post

Written By Sil Azevedo

Official poster: I Am for Peace: Where on Earth is the Peace Movement?

The documentary film I am producing, I Am for Peace is now in post production with release scheduled for September 2026. The film is listed on Film Freeway with the description:

Facing a world in constant war and violence, a filmmaker embarks on a global search for wisdom — interviewing community leaders, artists, philosophers, historians, humanitarians, and peace activists. Through intimate conversations, the film asks: What does peace mean to you? Is peace on Earth possible? What can we do to make this a more peaceful world?

We plan to hold screenings in the U.S. and abroad in collaboration with local peace organizations, starting with Dallas-FW each participant’s location. We are in the process of submitting the film to specialized peace film festivals and select general festivals In addition, we are working with educational organizations to bring this film to schools with a Peace Studies program as well. We will exclusively hold live screenings for the first 12 months and then release for online streaming.

The film’s official website will link those interested in becoming active in the peace movement with peace and social justice organizations, including several that participated in the film (World Beyond War, Waging Peace, Landmine Relief Fund) and others such as (such as International Rescue Committee, Doctors Without Borders, Veterans for Peace, among many others) will be able to do so. Our goal is simple: turn "peace lovers" into "peace makers!"

Sil Azevedo

I was seven years old when I got my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic 133. It was Christmas of 1973. Since then, I have always seen the world through the lens. It is my way of making sense, of visually dealing with paradoxes and complexities of life. In high school I was the lab rat and spent each free minute at the feet of the Beseler enlarger, hypnotized by its magical light. Still today I enjoy low light ambiences. They say photographers do it in the dark. I am living proof - ha! Architecture school followed as photography was not a career option in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The combination of art, composition, light, form and space, coupled with the demands of physics found in Architecture have their parallel in photography. The concepts are transferable. As I started my career in Architecture, I soon found that I was more excited about the concept and the print than the actual building. Fantasy is my reality. I kept shooting, learning and apprenticing with some incredible artists. In time, as life took its turns, my original passion for photography became my full time profession. It has been almost 20 years since I walked into the pro shop and charged the Hasselblad and the studio lights to my credit card. As he saw the bill and my naive optimism, even the salesman exclaimed, "you're going to have to sell a lot of pictures..." I did and still do, but what drives me is not that. It is the unstoppable desire to understand and to relate. To me, that is photography.

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