Inspiring docu "Favela Rising" traces the rehabilitation of a murder-ravaged Rio de Janeiro slum (the favela of the title) by the power of music. A former drug dealer and a community activist confront ...

“Never doubt,” Margaret Mead famously said, “that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” A vibrant documentary, “Favela ...

The University of Massachusetts Latin American Graduate Students Organization and the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies will feature the documentary film, “Favela Rising,” by ...

FAVELA RISING: Screens at the Bermuda International Film Festival on March 17 at 9 p.m. at the Little Theatre and March 19 in the Tradewinds Auditorium at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute ...

The film “City of God” shed light on a long-neglected subject, the Third World conditions and inescapable warfare existing in Rio de Janeiro’s slums. Now comes “Favela Rising,” a documentary that not ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — High on a hill in South America’s largest slum, Samantha Almeida startled at the latest volley of gunfire. It was close. Too close. She knew she had to get her girls moving. The ...

Anderson Sa speaks quietly and calmly to the camera about the first spasm of violence that made an impression on him. His mom tried to shield his young eyes from the sight of a drug dealer shooting a ...

Directed by Jeff Zimbalist & Matt Mochary, the Oscar-nominated Favela Rising documents the development of the Afro-Reggae cultural movement in Vigario Geral, one of 600-odd illegal shanty settlements ...

Working with fancy post-prod digitals courtesy of HBO, filmmakers Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary bring the Brazilian ghetto experience to Middle America, complete with harsh-contrast City of God ...