"Favela Rising"

The Latin American Film Series, co-sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art and the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Institute continues tonight with the showing of “Favela Rising” at 7:00 p.m. in room 150 of the Zell B. Miller Learning Center.

“Favela Rising,” directed by Matt Mochary and Jeff Zimbalist, is a documentary film about Anderson Sá, a former drug trafficker who tries to reinvigorate life in the favela, a squatters’ settlement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sá creates the Afro-Reggae movement while using hip-hop, street music and dance to celebrate life as an alternative to violence, drugs and oppression. The film has won 36 international film festival awards.

Susan C. Quinlan, associate professor of Portuguese, Spanish and women's studies, will present an introduction to the film. 

View the trailer below.

Portuguese with English subtitles, 80 minutes, 2006.