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.
Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi c...
After failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra, a talented violinist is forced to give music ...
Madonna celebrates her four-decade career in a special concert for over 1.6 million people at the Co...
Documentary about the singer Bezerra da Silva and the relation with his composers.
Where are you, João Gilberto? sets out in the footsteps of German writer Marc Fischer who obsessivel...
The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about...
A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/son...
A boxer in Rio's favelas opens a club to help keep kids out of the burgeoning drug trade.
Tribalistas were a short-lived but popular brazilian musical trio consisting of Marisa Monte, Arnald...
2000 Release of Live Concert Filmed in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and Barcelona, Spain (1999). • 1. Maç...
The story of the Candeal favela in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where musician Carlinhos Brown carries...