"Actor: Michele Moraes"

• Favela Rising | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £3.98   |  Saving you £18.00 (904.52%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Their music fuelled a movement. His message fought a war. 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 S 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 oppre