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FAVELA RISING
This 80-minute documentary focuses on 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 Sa 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. Just as Anderson's grassroots Afro Reggae movement is reaching the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence his work forever.
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