Favela documentary update

Southeast Asian Premiere

FDP — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:28:37 +0000

We are delighted to hear that Cruzeiro has been selected for the World Film Festival of Bangkok, 6 - 15 November 2009. More than 80 international films are screened at the festival each year, featuring works from the European Union Film Festival, Latin America, Asia and Southeast Asia and included are short films, experimental films, [...]

Coming up: LIDF Encore Series at the British Museum - August 7

FDP — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:29:39 +0000

Film double bill: Bus Lovers and Cruzeiro Highlights from the London International Documentary Film Festival 2009 Friday 7 August, 18.30 Stevenson Lecture Theatre £3, concessions £2 Bus Lovers (Busólogos) | 12 minutes A profile of bus lovers in Sao Paulo. Cruzeiro | 46 minutes An insight into four young people living in Vila Cruzeiro, one of the most violent slum areas in Rio de Janeiro. Booking [...]

North-American Premiere

FDP — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:09:30 +0000

Cruzeiro screens Saturday July 18 at the International Black Women’s Film Festival in San Francisco with several feature-length films and shorts made by or featuring black women. The IBWFF is founded by Adrienne Anderson who was interviewed by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Peter Hartlaub in regards to her film festival. Read it here: SF Chronicle. Saturday, July [...]

Mayra’s BBC report

FDP — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:17:00 +0000

Source: www.bbc.co.uk Your Story: growing up in the favelas Seventeen-year-old Mayra Avellar was awarded the International Children’s Peace Price for organising a protest against the violence in her home community, a favela called Vila Cruzeiro in Rio de Janeiro. She wants to highlight how the frequent shoot-outs between police and drug traffickers affect the children in her community, [...]

LIDF & Doha 2009

FDP — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:49:39 +0000

Our world premiere in London was wonderful! We would like to extend our sincere thanks to everyone from the LIDF team for making our premiere so succesful. Many thanks in particular to Patrick and Katarina for their support for Cruzeiro. We - that is Noucky and me - were overwhelmed by the warm welcome we [...]

More screenings

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:28:09 +0000

After our World Premiere in London at the LIDF on April 4, we’ll travel to Qatar for the 5th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival. The festival is held in Qatar’s capital Doha from 13-16 April 2009. At the end of the month, we’ll have a screening in our hometown Rio de Janeiro. Our friends from Cinema Nosso [...]

World Premiere, April 4, London

FDP — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:26:02 +0000

CRUZEIRO has been selected by the London International Documentary Film Festival, LIDF 2009. The documentary will be screened Saturday, 4 April, at the closing all-day-event at the British Museum: a feast of films across three screens. At 3PM Cruzeiro has its world premiere at the Sackler Rooms, an amazing location! We wish we could be there [...]

Mayra Avellar wins Children’s Peace Prize

FDP — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:38:44 +0000

Mayra has been awarded an extraordinary prize. On December 4th Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu handed over the fourth International Children’s Peace Prize to Mayra at a ceremony held in the Ridderzaal in The Hague, The Netherlands. This is what the jury said: “Mayra Avellar is awarded the prize for her courageous and successful battle [...]

Estréia

FDP — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:19:06 +0000

New trailer

FDP — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:33:43 +0000