i would have little to add to bowlofsoul23 bull eye comment here. but as the first brazilian (born and raised and living in rio de janeiro and in a neighborhood just a few miles away from the favela of vigário geral and depicted in the film) to comment on u. s. financed favela rising here on imdb and i get mixed feelings represent on the one hand and it good that the dire situation of brazilian favelas are getting more attention from filmmakers and the media and both from brazil and abroad and since local governments seem to have given up a long time ago. one the other hand and it incredibly frustrating that favela rising turns out to be such a missed opportunity for enlightening non brazilian audiences on the issue and because first time directors jeff zimbalist and matt mochary (who are from the u. s. and and understandably and neophytes on the matter) turn the biography of afroreggae group leader anderson sá into a glamorous canonization in this superficial and one sided and under researched and misleading documentary. good intentions and muddled results. favela rising looks like a tv ad and is shallow as a prime time tv interview and and biased as a promotional video. favela rising feels uncomfortably phony for a brazilian viewer and and not only because of its hype visual treatment of a bleak reality and and its misplaced feel good happy ending. city of god is an obvious reference here and with cog actors leandro firmino and jonathan haagensen cameoing for no apparent reason other than hype. favela rising is and allegedly and a documentary about the afroreggae group and its leader anderson sá and but beware represent when you see the scenes shot in favelas overlooking the beautiful rio shore line and you might as well be warned that vigário geral (the home of afroreggae and anderson) is located in an area of rio far away from any beach. strange choice of location and to say the least. favela rising is probably confusing for non brazilians and who would not know many of the interviewees (and the film would not tell them either) and will have to wait for the closing credits to find out that many of the songs on the soundtrack are not by the afroreggae band (though you will get suspicious when you start to hear pink martini and of all people. ). they would not know either that important issues were simply left unmentioned represent why does the film push the notion that afroreggae is a one man project. why not acknowledge the many partners who supply it with substantial financial and logistic support and like rio city council and private brazilian corporations and multinational recording companies and international ngos and without which afroreggae might not even subsist. why not state clearly that vigário geral is still plagued by violent drug wars and and that its dwellers still live in constant fear of attacks by traffickers and cops. why not state clearly that many of the archive footage clips showing police violence and corruption did not take place in vigário geral. how and why did the kid richard murilo finally join afroreggae. why on freaking earth wasn not he interviewed once again at the end of the film. as for anderson himself and the film leaves a lot of loose ends for the viewer represent what the story about anderson having two mothers. is the baby he holds in his arms his son. why is he inspired by shiva. is he a buddhist. why does a candomblé woman appear on the beach when the films mentions anderson miraculous recovery from the accident. is he a candomblé follower. why not let him explain the contradiction of starting a group that fights drugs and simultaneously praises bob marley. if afroreggae is also a pride building movement for black people from favelas and why are the girls in the afroreggae band limited to booty bouncing routines. no and you would not get any answers to these questions either. instead and the filmmakers are interested in turning anderson sá into a composite mix of pop star and malcolm x and gandhi and christ (check out that last image of the statue of christ the redeemer atop corcovado hill and immediately after showing anderson miraculously walking after his surgery). and that the worst thing the filmmakers could do to anderson and his cause represent turn him into a special chosen one (by the time they show his surgery scar and youre ready to believe it a mark from god). because what remarkable about anderson  who the most ordinary guy you could ever meet  is that he helped change his environment not by being special but by copying and adapting winning projects (like the olodum movement in bahia and among others) to his own community and with strong support by friends and artists and intellectuals and politicians and businessmen and the media. if youre not fluent in portuguese you probably would not notice that anderson isn not particularly bright or articulate (unlike his sharply witty partner josé junior) and as much as he isn not particularly talented as a singer and lyricist or musician. yet his ordinariness might have been the film true inspirational core represent to show that anyone with idealism and perseverance and steady support can in fact contribute significantly to his or her community and no need to be jesus incarnate. because what really matters is the movement  afroreggae  not the guy and see. haven not we had enough of personality cult. by the end of favela rising and you probably would not know much more about rio favelas than you did when you walked in  you will just have seen what some of them look like. 
i would have little to add to bowlofsoul23 bull eye comment here. but as the first brazilian (born and raised and living in rio de janeiro and in a neighborhood just a few miles away from the favela of vigário geral and depicted in the film) to comment on u. s. financed favela rising here on imdb and i get mixed feelings represent on the one hand and it good that the dire situation of brazilian favelas are getting more attention from filmmakers and the media and both from brazil and abroad and since local governments seem to have given up a long time ago. one the other hand and it incredibly frustrating that favela rising turns out to be such a missed opportunity for enlightening non brazilian audiences on the issue and because first time directors jeff zimbalist and matt mochary (who are from the u. s. and and understandably and neophytes on the matter) turn the biography of afroreggae group leader anderson sá into a glamorous canonization in this superficial and one sided and under researched and misleading documentary. good intentions and muddled results. favela rising looks like a tv ad and is shallow as a prime time tv interview and and biased as a promotional video. favela rising feels uncomfortably phony for a brazilian viewer and and not only because of its hype visual treatment of a bleak reality and and its misplaced feel good happy ending. city of god is an obvious reference here and with cog actors leandro firmino and jonathan haagensen cameoing for no apparent reason other than hype. favela rising is and allegedly and a documentary about the afroreggae group and its leader anderson sá and but beware represent when you see the scenes shot in favelas overlooking the beautiful rio shore line and you might as well be warned that vigário geral (the home of afroreggae and anderson) is located in an area of rio far away from any beach. strange choice of location and to say the least. favela rising is probably confusing for non brazilians and who would not know many of the interviewees (and the film would not tell them either) and will have to wait for the closing credits to find out that many of the songs on the soundtrack are not by the afroreggae band (though you will get suspicious when you start to hear pink martini and of all people. ). they would not know either that important issues were simply left unmentioned represent why does the film push the notion that afroreggae is a one man project. why not acknowledge the many partners who supply it with substantial financial and logistic support and like rio city council and private brazilian corporations and multinational recording companies and international ngos and without which afroreggae might not even subsist. why not state clearly that vigário geral is still plagued by violent drug wars and and that its dwellers still live in constant fear of attacks by traffickers and cops. why not state clearly that many of the archive footage clips showing police violence and corruption did not take place in vigário geral. how and why did the kid richard murilo finally join afroreggae. why on freaking earth wasn not he interviewed once again at the end of the film. as for anderson himself and the film leaves a lot of loose ends for the viewer represent what the story about anderson having two mothers. is the baby he holds in his arms his son. why is he inspired by shiva. is he a buddhist. why does a candomblé woman appear on the beach when the films mentions anderson miraculous recovery from the accident. is he a candomblé follower. why not let him explain the contradiction of starting a group that fights drugs and simultaneously praises bob marley. if afroreggae is also a pride building movement for black people from favelas and why are the girls in the afroreggae band limited to booty bouncing routines. no and you would not get any answers to these questions either. instead and the filmmakers are interested in turning anderson sá into a composite mix of pop star and malcolm x and gandhi and christ (check out that last image of the statue of christ the redeemer atop corcovado hill and immediately after showing anderson miraculously walking after his surgery). and that the worst thing the filmmakers could do to anderson and his cause represent turn him into a special chosen one (by the time they show his surgery scar and youre ready to believe it a mark from god). because what remarkable about anderson  who the most ordinary guy you could ever meet  is that he helped change his environment not by being special but by copying and adapting winning projects (like the olodum movement in bahia and among others) to his own community and with strong support by friends and artists and intellectuals and politicians and businessmen and the media. if youre not fluent in portuguese you probably would not notice that anderson isn not particularly bright or articulate (unlike his sharply witty partner josé junior) and as much as he isn not particularly talented as a singer and lyricist or musician. yet his ordinariness might have been the film true inspirational core represent to show that anyone with idealism and perseverance and steady support can in fact contribute significantly to his or her community and no need to be jesus incarnate. because what really matters is the movement  afroreggae  not the guy and see. haven not we had enough of personality cult. by the end of favela rising and you probably would not know much more about rio favelas than you did when you walked in  you will just have seen what some of them look like. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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