- Studio: New Yorker Films
- Release Date: Sep 12, 2003
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- Summary: Shot on location in Brazil this feature-length documentary profiles Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, an award-winning artist and human-rights activist who has gained international recognition for her work with street children in Rio. (Hyena Pictures)
- Director: Monika Treut
- Genre(s): Documentary
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80Universally embraceable subject matter, coupled with helmer's sterling rep as benevolent booster of humanistic pioneers.
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80It would be foolish for a middle-class do-gooder confronting homeless children on the streets of Rio de Janeiro to expect conventional morality to have any meaning to them at all. That's one of the blunt, no-nonsense observations of Yvonne Bezarra de Mello, the Brazilian human rights activist profiled in Monika Treut's hard-headed documentary.
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75Heartbreaking.
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50De Mello's dedication is inspiring enough to speak for itself.
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