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LIFE AND DEBT

Developing Stories Series I

50 minutes
Grades 10-Adult

A film by Octavio Bezerra for BBC Television

Brazil's massive $130 billion debt is the ultimate cause of
the shocking assassination of 500 street children a year in
Rio de Janeiro. This hard-hitting docu-drama argues that the
children's only crime is that they are poor and have nowhere
to go. The film examines the links between Brazil's economic
crisis and its tragic social and ecological plight following
500 years of domination and exploitation by Europeans,
Americans, and now Japanese.

Awards: Gold Apple, National Educational Film & Video
Festival; Golden Panda Award, Wildscreen; Runner-Up, One World
Broadcasting Awards

• "If there is a more precise and vivid essay on the root
  causes of Third World misery... it could not be more potent
  than LIFE AND DEBT." Toronto Star
  

• "A powerful polemical film" The (London) Sunday Times
  

Subject Areas: THIRD WORLD DEBT, NORTH SOUTH RELATIONS,
BRAZIL, DEVELOPMENT

ISBN: 1-56029-536-8

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