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… continued from last week.
Does/Can media provoke a change in a community? Let’s have a look at Rocinha. Dante Quinterno is with us again to talk about the role of TV Roc.

(X)Changing Ideas in Rocinha [ 6:32 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (734)

Might be a strange heading, but there is something very true about it. Because it is neither money, nor the best research programs who have really changed a lot. They have created hope – yes, but where are the great results? Maybe it just takes way longer as we are expecting.
In Rio I never had the impression that there is not enough money. You get support for nearly anything if you have the connections. But everyday life with shooting and rates like civil war continue.

So getting back to my heading: Dante Quinterno, the president of TV ROC is proposing a different story. Mass weddings and mass christmas for a better communication inside the community? Listen to the interview to make your own opinion. But I believe that everyone needs something to compensate the civil war infront of its door (or even worse inside its house).

to be continued next monday …

Unserious Stuff for a Serious Change [ 14:21 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (676)

A short and superficial overview on the HISTORY OF FILM in Brazil. As you know I made a critical remark to the Golden Bear for Tropa de Elite. I just would like to suggest some other favela-films which are worth to be watched.

Next monday you get a cast on TV Roc, the broadcasting from Rocinha.

Auf könnt Ihr das Thema Film hier nachlesen.

From the ’Famine Aesthetic’ to the 'Favela-Pop' [ 8:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (848)

Topics of the Brazilian film history and films I am refering to:
I tried to find the youtube links – only the newer ones are in English. When I linked the English title than it should be in English.
Cinema Novo
= italian Neo-realism (for example: Roma Città Aperta from Bertolucci)

• ‘Rio 40 Graus‘ /Rio at 40 degrees, 1955/ and ‘Rio Zona Norte’ /Rio Northern Zone, 1957/ from Nelson Pereira dos Santos,
  You may watch the whole film in Portuguese. This here is just the first sequence. The rest you can find on youtube.
• Cinco vezes Favela /five times favela 1962/, a collective film

Gláuber Rocha calls it in 1965 the “aesthetic of famine”.

Cinema Marginal

• ‘Terra em Transe‘ /Gláuber Rocha, Land in Trance 1967/,
  DVD out just in portuguese.
• ‘Macunaíma‘ /1969 by Joaquim Pedro/,
  in Portuguese and French
  The scene with the swimming pool is from the Parque Lage.
• ‘O homem que Virou Suco‘ /The squeezed Man, 1979 by Jaoa Batista de Andrade/

Paulista
(more for TV than for cinema)

• ‘Olhar Electrônico’ /electronic view/ with ‘Garotos do Subúrbio’ /The boys from the suburbs, 1982/
• ‘Solo, the Law of Favela’ (1994),
• ‘Zezé’ – The boy, the pod-lid and the favela’ (1995),
• ‘Geraldo voador’ /Flying Gerald/(1996).

Favela-Pop

• Noticias de Uma guerra Particular /News from a private war, 1998
• Cidade de Deus /City of God 2002 by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund/
• Cidade dos homens /City of Men/ = Telenovela
• Uma Ondo no Ar /FavelaRadio 2003/,
• Favela Rising 2005