Which film looked at life in Brazil's slums, Favela Rising or Burma VJ?
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Favela Rising Favela Rising is a 2005 documentary film by American directors Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary. It was produced by Sidetrack Films and VOY Pictures. It debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 24, 2005 where it won the award for "Best New Documentary Filmmaker" for Zimbalist and Mochary. The film's look at life in Brazil's slums won it further awards such as "Best Documentary Film" from the New York Latino Film Festival and "Best Feature Documentary" from Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. The film has won over twenty-five international festival awards and was short-listed for an Oscar.
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Burma VJ Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a 2008 Danish documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the Saffron Revolution against the military regime in Burma. The "VJ" in the title stands for "video journalists." Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras. The footage was smuggled out of the country, physically or over the Internet. Other parts of it were reconstructed, which caused controversy.
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Plum Blossom (film) Plum Blossom (; lit. "Youth") is a 2000 South Korean coming-of-age film written and directed by Kwak Ji-kyoon.
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Morro da Babilônia The Morro da Babilônia (] , "Babylon Hill") is a "favela" in the Leme neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, built on a steep ridge separating Copacabana beach from Botafogo. It also is an environmentally protected area.
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Yamraaj (film) Yamraaj is a 1998 released Indian action film starring Mithun Chakraborty and Jackie Shroff as thieves and their conflict between each other on their Goal.
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Dweepa Dweepa (Kannada: ದ್ವೀಪ , English: "The Island" ) is a 2002 Indian Kannada language film by Girish Kasaravalli, based on the novel of the same name by Na D'Souza, and starring Soundarya and Avinash in lead roles. "Dweepa" deals with the raging issue of building dams and the displacement of natives.
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Siam-Burma Death Railway (film) Siam Burma Death Railway is a 2014 Singaporean documentary film written and directed by Kurinji Vendan about the Asian forced-laborers who worked on the Siam-Burma Death Railway during World War II.
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Rocinha Rocinha (] , "little farm") is the largest favela in Brazil, and is located in Rio de Janeiro's South Zone between the districts of São Conrado and Gávea. Rocinha is built on a steep hillside overlooking Rio de Janeiro, and is located about one kilometre from a nearby beach. Most of the favela is on a very steep hill, with many trees surrounding it. Almost 70,000 (census 2010) people live in Rocinha, making it the most populous favela in Brazil.
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Jonathas' Forest Jonathas' Forest (Portuguese: "A Floresta de Jonathas" ) is a 2012 Brazilian drama film written and directed by Sergio Andrade.
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Gangs of Tooting Broadway Gangs of Tooting Broadway is a 2013 British-Tamil crime drama film directed by Devanand Shanmugam. The film features Nav Sidhu and Kabelan Verlkumar in lead roles. It released on 4 February 2013. The story is based on gang wars between Tamil people and Black people living in Tooting Broadway.
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Polio v/s Polio victims Polio v/s Polio Victims is the National Award Winning Documentary film. The documentary won "Best Motivational/ Educational Film" at the 56th National Film Awards. The documentary follows a group of polio victims who took to the streets in 2008 to spread the message of the Pulse Polio Campaign. The film follows them as they go door to door, in various slums in Mumbai, to spread awareness about the upcoming "Pulse Polio Day".
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Rio Breaks Rio Breaks is a documentary film that explores surfing and slum-life in Rio de Janeiro through chronicling the trials and tribulations of two teenage surfers, Fabio and Naama, as they pursue the sport while also being tempted into the drug gang life of the favelas.
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Casa da Mãe Joana Casa da Mãe Joana is a 2008 Brazilian comedy film directed by Hugo Carvana. The film was released in Brazil on September 19, 2008.
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Vila do João Vila do João ("John's Village") is one of Complexo da Maré's favelas in Rio de Janeiro city.
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Cinema of Vietnam The cinema of Vietnam originates in the 1920s, and has largely been shaped by wars that have been fought in the country from the 1940s to the 1970s. Better known Vietnamese language films include "Cyclo", "The Scent of Green Papaya" and "Vertical Ray of the Sun", all by French-trained Việt Kiều director Tran Anh Hung. In recent years, as Vietnam's film industry has modernized and moved beyond government-backed propaganda films, contemporary Vietnamese filmmakers have gained a wider audience with films such as "Buffalo Boy", "Bar Girls", and "The White Silk Dress".
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I'm Rose, Darling I'm Rose, Darling (Burmese: ကျွန်မက နှင်းဆီပါ မောင် ) (Kya Ma Ka Hnin Si Par Maung) is 2015 Myanmar Drama Film directed by Wyne and starring Nay Toe and Phway Phway. It is one of the films that reached the highest-grossing film in Myanmar. This film was achieved Best Female Lead Actress and Best Director Awards at Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards.
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Odessa Sathyan Cheeram Veetti Sathyan (10 October 1957 – 19 August 2014), popularly known as Odessa Sathyan was an Indian documentary filmmaker and social activist, known for his involvement in the naxal movements of the seventies in Kerala and his association with "Odessa Collective", a people's film movement which was founded by the noted Malayalam filmmaker, John Abraham. He received the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi award, for his musical documentary "Balikurup", a film on Malayalam poet, A. Ayyappan.
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The Gang (film) The Gang is a 2000 Malayalam-language investigative thriller film directed and cinematographed by J. Williams. Vani Viswanath, Suvarna, Steffi, Jagadeesh, Sphadikam George and a hoard of villains star in the film. The film is produced under the banner of Cochin Films.
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Funk carioca Funk carioca, favela funk, and in other parts in the world, baile funk, is a music genre from Rio de Janeiro, derived from Miami bass and Gangsta Rap music.
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Si Ronda Si Ronda is a 1930 silent film from the Dutch East Indies which was directed by Lie Tek Swie and starred Bachtiar Effendi. Based on contemporary Betawi oral tradition, it follows the exploits of a bandit, skilled in "silat" (traditional Malay martial arts), known as Si Ronda. In the "lenong" stories from which the film was derived, Ronda was often depicted as a Robin Hood type of figure. The production, now thought lost, was one of a series of martial arts films released between 1929 and 1931. "Si Ronda" received little coverage in the media upon its release. A second adaptation of the tale, "Si Ronda Macan Betawi", was made in 1978.
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Naan Sigappu Manithan (1985 film) Naan Sigappu Manithan (English: "I am a Red Man" ) is a 1985 Tamil film directed by S.A. Chandrasekhar. The film stars Rajinikanth, Sathyaraj, Bhagyaraj, Ambika in lead roles with music by Ilaiyaraja. It is loosely based on the 1974 American action film "Death Wish" with Charles Bronson. It was also remade in Kannada as "Mahatma" starring Saikumar and V. Ravichandran. This movie was a commercial success at the box office and was later dubbed in Telegu as "Mr. Vijay".
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Dirty Hearts Dirty Hearts (Portuguese: "Corações Sujos" ) is a 2011 Brazilian drama-thriller film directed by Vicente Amorim, based on the book of the same name by Fernando Morais. The film was premiered at Festival do Rio on October 13, 2011, and was released in Brazil on August 17, 2012.