This  24 min audiovisual video project, tells what we know about Juan David Posada Arango, a.k.a “rifas” (raffles , in english), a man wich working on the streets became his only chance in life. “Rifas” is well known in different sectors of Medellín such as El Poblado, la Villa de Aburrá y Carlos E. Restrepo for raffling off beer, liquor, food and cigarrites just for 2.000 pesos each ticket. 
Thanks to this creative proposal, Juan David gets to the people that participate, giving messages that they listen carefully. He’s become an icon of Medellin’s pseudo-culture, and at certain sectors of the city, he’s become in a concrete “example” of creativity as a result of the top of mind he’s reached compared to others living and working in the streets. Even tough sometimes he doesn’t look like a life example, he’s also shown in this way.  This documentary project is developed under Creative Commons 2.5 license by Federico Ruiz “astronautaperdido“, Luis Pérez “pe5pe“ y Francisco Cárdenas “cinealoido“. There are some good friends also colaborating, such as the guys from La Cápsula, there is a group of 24 people in total already working on this. Each and everyone who participates, no matter how, will get their credit. 
We’ve been working on this project almost for 4 months, right now we are at the pre-production fase, documenting and looking for sources. There’s a log with all of our process at http://www.cinealoido.com/rifas/

According to the schedule, we must be producing on the second week of December and if everything goes right, we’ll air it on March. We’ve posted on the web videos and audio files of each one of the interviews, and there are some pictures on Flickr. 
All the archives haven’t been edited yet and they’re posted on the original versions, so you can access and study them from everywhere. We already count with musical support from local bands such as Coffee Makers, Ciudad Pasarela,  Kafeina,  I.R.A.,  Lucrecia y  Los Arboles, and we are waiting for another two local musicians to join us.

More about Juan David
He’s a man from the streets, he lives in a hotel located at Medellin’s downtown. He sings on buses, makes raffles at some city parks, he likes rock, salsa, reggae and he likes to read. He lived 8 years in Chocó, and helped to built Costa Azul Hotel at Nuquí. He’s been separated from his family almost for 14 years, he has a son who lives in the USA. He played soccer at the Chocó Team. In Cartagena, he was put in jail during 8 days. He became a drug addict and ended up living in the streets. Now he suffers lug cancer, but he still amazes and surprises with the little things of life. Reality or fiction in all of this? That’s what we are finding out. 
 
 
Agradecimientos a Jenny López por la traducción.