Events &News &Random Gracie Chavez on 19 Mar 2009 08:49 am
Goze-o: Favela On Blast Debuts at SXSW
Guns, drugs and drums — Rio’s on fire!
If you missed Saturday’s screening of Diplo‘s new documentary Favela On Blast, you’d be a fool to miss tonight’s 10p.m. viewing at Paramount at SXSW in Austin, Texas (with Diplo Q&A after screening)!
For 20 years, a subculture has emerged under society’s radar. Favela On Blast tells the stories of sex, love, poverty and pride for Rio’s marginalized people. They have their own language, style and heroes. It’s a music that’s fast, heavy and violent like the city itself. This film is a flash of a few lives of charismatic people that relate to the funk music and a retelling of the subculture itself.
Funk superstars like Deize, Tigrona, Mr Catra, Duda Do Borell all make an appearance. And traficantes, funkieros, mothers and fathers, workers and students in Rio all have a part to play in funk culture. It’s kinda of like the bass that ate Rio mixes with Edward Scissorhands.– MadDecent.com
For more info and directions to tonight’s screening, visit SXSW2009.do512.com.
