Director: Fernando Meirelles. Co-management: Katia Lund. Screenplay: Bráulio Mantovani. Cast: Alexa

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The film City of God, Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund, projected on Thursday September 19 in the series '20 years of Latin American cinema'. Latin House presents twenty great films of Latin American cinema, displayed games on your theater games throughout games the last two decades and because of its twentieth anniversary.
Director: Fernando Meirelles. Co-management: Katia Lund. Screenplay: Bráulio Mantovani. Cast: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Douglas Silva, Roberta Rodrigues, Jonathan Haagensen, Daniel Zettel, Phellipe Haagensen. Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Paulo Lins, depicts the growth of organized crime in Cidade de Deus, a violent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, from the late sixties to the early eighties. games The protagonist of the film is this neighborhood, one of the most dangerous games city of Rio. Buscapé The narrator is a young black too fragile and shy to a life of crime but talented enough to succeed as an artist and photographer. We see through his eyes the development of life, fights, love and death of characters whose fates intersect and depart over time.
Date: Thursday September 19, 2013. Time: 19.30. Location: American Cinema. Free admission with limited capacity. Tickets for the free sessions will be distributed, first-served on the day of the projection from 1800.
Director: Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund. Co-management: Katia Lund. Production: O2 Filmes, Videofilmes. Co: Globo Filmes. Producers: Walter Salles, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Mauricio Andrade Ramos. Co-producers: Daniel Filho Hank Levine, Marc Beauchamps, Vincent Maraval, Juliette Renaud. Executive games Producer: Walter Salles, Donald Ranvaud. Screenplay: Bráulio Mantovani, games based on the novel by Paulo Lins. Photo: César Charlone. Art Direction: Tulé Peake. Editing: Daniel Rezende. Sound: Guilherme Ayrosa, Paulo Ricardo Nunes, Martin Hernandez. Music: Antonio Pinto, Ed Côrtes. Cast: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Douglas Silva, Roberta Rodrigues, Jonathan Haagensen, Daniel Zettel, Phellipe games Haagensen.
Coral Awards for Best Film, Best Male Performance (all actors), games Best Cinematography and Best Editing. International Festival of New Latin American Cinema. Havana, Cuba, 2002.
A friend of mine gave me the Cidade de Deus by Paulo Lins novel with the idea of moving to the movies its six hundred pages. I did not pay attention. I knew the book was the beginning of drug trafficking games in Rio de Janeiro, which was a violent and hopeless games story and unfolding in a favela. I had never taken cocaine and was not interested in the topic. I knew very little about the organization of the favelas and drug trafficking and would not leave my family in São Paolo to go shoot a movie in Rio.
I decided to read the book anyway because I was intrigued by the good reviews it had received. On page one hundred and he agreed games with my friend that it was a very interesting story. From page two hundred began to emphasize a word here, some there. At the end of the novel was written on the back cover a complete list of locations and notes on characters and felt fully involved in the project. I am aware that I never took the decision to adapt the book. It was the same book that kidnapped me, demanding to be adapted to film.
Reading the book was a revelation, the revelation of the other side of my country. Of course I had read books and articles about the favelas and drug trafficking, and thought he knew something about the social apartheid that exists in Brazil, but the book goes much further and turned upside down vision of this particular universe. The author, Paulo Lins, grew up in the favela of Cidade de Deus and practically wrote the novel pass before seeing his window to the characters. The litany of names of young men killed in the prime of life, and how to accept the reality of violence, was what impressed me and what prompted me to make the film. A sixteen-year-old knows that it's been the best years of your life and hopefully survive three or four. He knows he will die soon and accept death as something inevitable. The loss of life is the central theme of the story.
Born in São Paolo in 1955, he started producing experimental videos with a group of friends while studying architecture at the