Favela Rising
Tatamagouche (NS)
Friday October 5, 2007
Screening begins 19h30
Brazil - USA / 2005 / 80 min
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.
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.
Directors: Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary
Producers: Matt Mochary and Jeff Zimbalist
Editor: Jeff Zimbalist
Cinematography 1: Jeff Zimbalist
Cinematography 2: Matt Mochary and Kelly Mark Green
Field Producers: Roberta Drumond and Mariana Benchimol
Associate Producers: José Junior and Tatiana Dorow
Executive Producers: Ravi Anne and Rich Lim
Original Music: Force Theory
Original Score by Force Theory, Written and performed by Sanford Livingston and Michael Furjanic
Original Music: AfroReggae
