Filmmaker Statement

We’d been keeping our eyes peeled for someone interesting in the neighbourhood to go out and film in downtime. The Disco Bunny - an unusual street performer who was gathering a bit of buzz around him on her social media - literally arrived on my doorstep with a broken down 'bunny mobile'. We followed him for a while to see if a story would present itself. Watching him dance to his boombox, he seemed to invoke a collective madness on the grey streets of Britain - like some exotic alien from another planet with a magic off-switch for British reserve. It turned out that at the age of six, he had actually arrived from a very different world. What begins as a vignette about a colourful street performer, quickly reveals layers that touch on themes of identity, race, the meaning of family, the hunger for fame, the English class system, homophobia, abandonment and hope, as Pablo tries to recreate his unremembered former life as a street kid from the favelas of Salvador.