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Title Favela rising / Sidetrack Films and Voy Pictures present a film by Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary.

Publication Info. [New York?] : Thinkfilm : HBO Documentary Films, [2006?]

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  POR DVD FAVELA    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; Dolby digital stereo., 5.1.
Credits Cinematographer, editor, Jeff Zimbalist ; original music, Force Theory ; featured music, AfroReggae.
Note Originally produced in 2005.
Summary Documents how former drug-trafficker, Anderson Sá and the Grupo Cultural AfroReggae are working to unite a Rio slum, or favela, against a violent drug industry and police oppression.
Note Special features include: behind-the-scenes footage; AfroReggae music video; theatrical trailer.
Language Chiefly in Portuguese with English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Social problems -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Social conditions.
AfroReggae (Musical group)
Grupo Cultural AfroReggae.
Sá, Anderson.
Political activists -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Case studies.
Social movements -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Slums -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Case studies.
Squatter settlements -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Case studies.
Youth -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Social conditions.
Black people -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Social conditions.
Drug traffic -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Police misconduct -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Genre/Form Documentary television programs.
Added Author Zimbalist, Jeff.
Mochary, Matt.
Sidetrack Films.
VOY Pictures.
Thinkfilm (Firm)
HBO Documentary Films.
Standard No. 796019798198
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