One in Fifty
Screenings
Indy Shorts International Film Festival - World Premiere
HollyShorts Film Festival
Money 20/20
AWARDS
B2B Marketing Awards - (Winner-SILVER) BRAND MARKETING PROGRAMMES - Best Purpose-Led Initiative
B2B Marketing Awards - (Winner-SILVER) CAMPAIGN MECHANICS - Best Use of Content
Corporate Affairs Awards 2026 - Best use of Content - Corporate/City
Press
Deadline - Indy Shorts International Film Festival Programming Announcement
TV GLOBO - Child business partners: the drama of those who inherit millionaire debts and judicial blockages
ShortStick Films Review - One in Fifty is Worth the Watch
VOXPOP Video Interview - The hidden financial crime stealing children’s futures
LSEG Risk Intelligence - LSEG Risk Intelligence: One In Every Fifty Children Falls Victim To Identity Theft Each Year
Money 20/20 - Renata is a Partner Manager at LSEG Risk Intelligence, where she leads strategic partnerships focused on financial crime prevention.
SC Media – Report: Child ID theft surges 40% in three years
Financial IT – One in Every Fifty Children Falls Victim to Identity Theft Each Year
Regulation Asia – Financial Sector Must Act to Curb Rise in Child Identity Theft
Leicester Mercury – 'I was 6 when my identity was stolen - parents might not realise their children are at risk'
Daily Mirror – 'I owed £300,000 in debts that weren't mine after my identity was stolen age 6'
Fintech Finance – One in Every Fifty Children Falls Victim to Identity Theft Each Year
BiometricUpdate.com – LSEG leads child identity theft campaign
Finopotamus – One In Every Fifty Children Falls Victim To Identity Theft Each Year
Disruption Banking – One In Every Fifty Children Falls Victim To Identity Theft Each Year
IMPACT:
SafeWithRenata
Yesterday, I (Renata) received a text from the Brazil senator’s assessor that simply said:
“Law reform introduced. The first step is done! Thank you for speaking out.
I just froze. A movie played in my head.
I am just a girl who decided to speak up about her pain, and look what happened…
For the past few months, I’ve been in touch with the senator’s team after the One in Fifty documentary and several reports aired in Brazil about my personal story with child identity theft.
Several victims began reaching out, and we started discussing what could be done to protect children from having their identities abused by adults. Victim led initiative. A Law Reform was introduced yesterday in the Brazilian Senate!
The amendment proposes to reform the Civil Code to add a new layer of protection for minors. It now requires the Public Ministry’s Office to authorize every individual case where a minor’s identity is being used by adults, for instance, to open a company.
I had asked for a total prohibition, but that wouldn’t have passed due to legitimate inheritance cases. Still, this change is monumental: it places the State in charge of representing the child’s best interests, and if something goes wrong, the Public Ministry can be held responsible.
If this safeguard had existed when I was six years-old, my story would have been very different. The person who used my identity already had bad credit and was already answering a criminal case for tax evasion which he eventually was sentenced on - yet he became my “legal representative” at the time.
All those debts in my name were not a reflection of who I was. It was a reflection of a system that failed to protect me.
I believe this will start to change. 💙
* In the video: me reading the final version of the amendment that was officially introduced in the Brazilian Senate yesterday. Under its justification, it literally cites that this proposal comes as a result of victims speaking out publicly and raising awareness through the media.”
- Renata Furst Galvão
Last week I (Renata) shared that the Child Without Debt Law (PL 166/2026) was officially introduced. Today I discovered that 3 additional legislative proposals were introduced by different deputies across the political spectrum addressing the same issue:
“I remember being 10 years old and walking into a courthouse holding my mother’s hand.
She was furious. We waited in a cold room before going in, and she looked at me and said: “We are going in there, and when they ask who Renata Furst Galvão is, you say it’s you. That’s all. And remember: this is not your fault.”
We entered the courtroom: rows of wooden benches, a big Brazilian flag, that quiet institutional tension. A man at the front, with a microphone and authority in his voice, began calling a case involving a company debt and its owners.
There were three owners.
Owner #1 and #2 (adult men) could not be located.
Then he called:
Owner #3 Renata Furst Galvão.
I stood up.
“I’m here.”
The room went silent.
The judge responded:
“We don’t accept children in the courtroom, ma’am.”
That was the moment my mother went ballistic.
And while everyone in that room agreed it wasn’t my fault - that a child should never be pursued over company debt - the response was always the same:
“There is nothing we can do.”
“No precedent recognizes her as a victim.”
Fast forward two decades later.
Here I am reading the pages of Brazil’s Congress: the system acknowledging the problem, policy beginning to change.
Last week I shared that the Child Without Debt Law (PL 166/2026) was officially introduced. Today I discovered that 3 additional legislative proposals were introduced by different deputies across the political spectrum addressing the same issue: all citing my story and the stories of other victims coming to light.
These initiatives come from across the ideological spectrum: left and right, coalition and opposition. In a time when polarization dominates headlines, seeing the protection of children’s identities emerge as a multiparty concern is rare and deeply meaningful.
I was never “Owner #3”.
I am Renata Furst Galvão; now cited in the pages of Brazil’s Congress as part of a legislative effort to ensure no child is placed in that position again.
Here I am.”
-Renata Furst Galvão
