Brazil Research Task Resources
Country Profile
BBC World - Brazil Profile
Brazil UK Embassy - an
excellent resource on Brazil with various links.
Festivals
Southbank Festival Brazil - Bringing the vibrant,
dynamic culture of contemporary Brazil to the heart of London.
Festival celebrates the country's rich cultural heritage -
including music, visual arts, dance, literature, debates and
food.
Barbican Brazil
Film Festival - the fourth installment of Cinema of Brazil has
music as its theme, screening 10 award- winning films and
documentaries featuring Brazil's brightest music icons and diverse
styles.
Books
Arts
Resources
The Tropicália
movement was a passionate and intelligently articulated
response to military dictatorship and the ultimate counter-cultural
statement - a true revolution that re-defined Brazilian arts and
re-shaped Brazilian identity. It was to be a brief explosion of
cultural transformation and upheaval, spanning a period of no more
than five years, from 1967 to 1972. Some would say that it ended
only a year after it began, with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil’s
arrest in December 1968. What is clear is that Tropicália
changed Brazil forever.
Films
City of God - depicts
the growth of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio
de Janeiro, between the end of the '60s and the beginning of the
'80s
Elite Squad - is a
semi-fictional account of the Special Operations Battalion of the
Rio de Janeiro Military Police.
Favela Uprising - focuses on the
work of Anderson Sá, a former drug trafficker who establishes the
grassroots movement Afro Reggae.
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Economic
Resources
Brazil Economy
Current TV - expose about long-awaited environmental
restrictions on sugar cane planting in areas such as the Pantanal
wetlands and the Amazon forest.
Unreported World Links:
Brazil: The Killables -
Reporter Evan Williams and director Paul Kittel travel to the
Brazilian city of Recife, a beach paradise visited by thousands of
British tourists every year. They uncover allegations that the
police are involved in death squads that have murdered thousands of
'undesirables', including hundreds of street children, every
year.