Documentary addressing the composer Cartola and the transformations that took place in Morro Carioca and in Samba during his life. Founder of the Escola de Samba Estação Primeira de Mangueira, Cartola has his life and his music marked by his community and his School, far from the city His school, created as a playful and expressive center for the mangueirense, has now become a point of tourist attraction. This made work possible for the inhabitants of the hill, but it transformed the spirit of samba and its aesthetics.
Where are you, João Gilberto? sets out in the footsteps of German writer Marc Fischer who obsessivel...
Documentary about the singer Bezerra da Silva and the relation with his composers.
A portrayal of the life of one of the most important samba musicians in Brazil, Bahian sambista Osca...
2000 Release of Live Concert Filmed in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and Barcelona, Spain (1999). • 1. Maç...
Tribalistas were a short-lived but popular brazilian musical trio consisting of Marisa Monte, Arnald...
The story of the Candeal favela in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where musician Carlinhos Brown carries...
The Favela Pacification Program was launched in 2008 to reduce crime and drug trafficking in Rio de ...
No Rio de Janeiro, a 13 km do Cristo Redentor, dois portugueses aventuraram-se na mais temida favela...
A boxer in Rio's favelas opens a club to help keep kids out of the burgeoning drug trade.