A terrific concept is given unimaginative treatment in Rodrigo Felha’s “Favela Gay,” a standard-issue documentary about very non-standard gays and lesbians living in the slums of Rio. With a title ...

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 ...

Life in Rio’s favelas is explored from the inside out in “5X Favela — Now by Ourselves.” Surprisingly upbeat omnibus pic was initiated by Cinema Novo royalty Carlos Diegues and producer Renata Almeida ...

Monika Treut met Yvonne Bezerra de Mello a few years ago, through mutual friends in New York City. “Upon meeting her I knew I had to make a film about her,” says Treut, whose previous films have ...

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The Third Annual Global Peace Film Festival opened yesterday, December 7, in Orlando, FL. The festival, whose mission is the promotion of peace and peacemaking activities around the world through film ...

Five shorts set in the slums of Rio de Janeiro and directed by young filmmakers who live there make up a film that renews faith in the kind of moviemaking that reflects the human spirit in all its ...

« la Cité de Dieu » est plus qu'un film : c'est un coup de jus, une décharge de cinéma. Tiré d'un épais roman de Paulo Lins (1), ce long métrage - 2 h 15 qui passent comme une lettre à Petit Dé est à ...

Rio has long lured visitors to its splashy seaside resorts and colorful communities, from Copacabana to Ipanema. But spectators watching the Olympics this summer will be hearing a cultural term used ...

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 ...