Wednesday,
March 22 at 7:00pm
Reelblack
presents
Favela
Rising
dir. Matt Mochary
and Jeff Zimbalist, USA, 2005, video, 80 mins, color
 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
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. At the dawn of
liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds
and Anderson's grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height
of its success, a tragic accident threatens
to silence the movement
forever.
Best Documentary Film,
Tribeca Film Festival, Roxbury Film Festival.
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