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Tomorrow evening we playing at the opening night of the 5th Annual Travelling World Community Film Festival at Langara College (100 W. 49th). We play at 7:30, just before Favela Rising begins.
FAVELA RISING documents 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 Sá 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.
At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson's grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever.
FESTIVAL OPENER ON OSCAR SHORTLIST: Favela Rising is one of 15 films on the shortlist for an Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary Feature. Eighty-two films had been eligible in the category. The nominated films will be announced along with nominations in 24 other categories for the 78th Academy Awards on Tuesday, January 31, at 5:30 a.m. PST.
Favela Rising has won a number of awards including The International Documentary Association Film of the Year and Best Emerging Documentary Filmmaker at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Ticket prices are (with a 10-per-cent CoDev membership discount, 50-per-cent Low Income Discount)
$30 Festival Pass
$15 Saturday and Sunday days
$10 Friday Night
$10 Saturday Night
Tickets are available at:
CoDevelopment Canada
101-2747 E. Hastings
pay by phone: 604-708-1495 ext 113
Langara College Continuing Studies
100 W. 49 th
pay by phone: 604-323-5323
People's Coop Bookstore
1391 Commercial Dr.
10am - 6pm Monday - Saturday
1pm - 5pm Sunday
10,000 Villages
2909 W. Broadway
10am - 6pm Monday - Saturday
11am - 5pm Sunday
Links:
5th Annual Travelling World Community Film Festival: www.codev.org/filmfest/
Favela Rising: www.favelarising.com/
FAVELA RISING documents 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 Sá 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.
At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson's grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever.
FESTIVAL OPENER ON OSCAR SHORTLIST: Favela Rising is one of 15 films on the shortlist for an Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary Feature. Eighty-two films had been eligible in the category. The nominated films will be announced along with nominations in 24 other categories for the 78th Academy Awards on Tuesday, January 31, at 5:30 a.m. PST.
Favela Rising has won a number of awards including The International Documentary Association Film of the Year and Best Emerging Documentary Filmmaker at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Ticket prices are (with a 10-per-cent CoDev membership discount, 50-per-cent Low Income Discount)
$30 Festival Pass
$15 Saturday and Sunday days
$10 Friday Night
$10 Saturday Night
Tickets are available at:
CoDevelopment Canada
101-2747 E. Hastings
pay by phone: 604-708-1495 ext 113
Langara College Continuing Studies
100 W. 49 th
pay by phone: 604-323-5323
People's Coop Bookstore
1391 Commercial Dr.
10am - 6pm Monday - Saturday
1pm - 5pm Sunday
10,000 Villages
2909 W. Broadway
10am - 6pm Monday - Saturday
11am - 5pm Sunday
Links:
5th Annual Travelling World Community Film Festival: www.codev.org/filmfest/
Favela Rising: www.favelarising.com/
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