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Favela Rising
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Directed by:
Matt Mochary
Jeff Zimbalist
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 2, 2006
DVD: March 13, 2007
Running Time: 80 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Language(s): Portuguese (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Jose Junior, and Anderson Sa
Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. (ThinkFilm)
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What The Critics Said
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TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The larger message remains clear: Unified communities have more power than they realize, and the most vicious enemy of progress is learned helplessness.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
An inspirational portrait of an unwanted kid who brought culture to a world that had known only violence.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
Elevated by fantastic performance footage of Sa and his young protégés singing, dancing and rhythmically banging on cans, plastic bottles or anything else that can be fashioned into a drum -- and a cultural revolution.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
All in all, the movement turned out to be a godsend for Rio natives, but the film is merely a pep rally.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Steven Winn
For all its drive and passion, Favela Rising is an uneven, spasmodic film.
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