Extra Credit Opportunity: Thursday March 4, 7pm

History Film Series
Favela Rising
Presented by Michael A. Deliz

WHEN: Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 7pm
WHERE: UCF Engineering Building 2 – ENG2-102.

Preceded by a 20 minute presentation:
Poverty & History: Forgotten Peoples in the Documentation of Humanity

FREE ADMISSION

WHEN: Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 7pm
WHERE: UCF Engineering Building 2 – ENG2-102.

ABOUT:
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.

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