Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 30'
Rua Paraiso, "ciudade nova", is a shanty town slum in the northern part of Sao Paulo, a mega-polis of Brazil. It's a symbol of the poverty of thousands of favelas spread around the world. There are 1600 of these areas only in Sao Paulo. The children tell the story of these conditions - metaphor for the present-day unstoppable development of the big cities of the earth.
"The main purpose of this documentary is not to analyze the disastrous consequences of the abnormal growth of the cities, but to draw a picture of Brazilian children, to listen to their vision of the world, and to consider them little adults and teachers about life" (Elisabetta Francia).
Biography
film director
Elisabetta Francia
Elisabetta Francia is a television director and author. He has worked for the large national television networks making various documentaries about social conditions in Italy and abroad as well as cultural portraits and reports for exhibitions, festivals, and concerts.
FILMOGRAFIA
Nuovi spazi a servire (cm, video, 1995), Pescatori di Colombia (1994), Freedom from Hunger Campaign (1995), Gli eredi di Salangome (1995), Strippers (doc., 1995, co-regia Ilaria Freccia), Le foreste del mare (1996), Ambrogio Fogar - Il viaggio (1999), Rua Paraiso (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura e montaggio: Elisabetta Francia.
Director of photography: Danilo Marabotto.
Production company: Anna Giese, Elisabetta Francia, via Torricelli 30, 20136 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-348-4111030, fax +39-02-48008663, e-mail isafrancia@libero.it.
Director of photography: Danilo Marabotto.
Production company: Anna Giese, Elisabetta Francia, via Torricelli 30, 20136 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-348-4111030, fax +39-02-48008663, e-mail isafrancia@libero.it.