Diversity Rocks Club Presents: Documentary Day

Diversity Rocks Club was started to recreate our united school-spirit by raising awareness, respect, and understanding amongst all different ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual preferences. Our objective is to bring community members together, promoting education, interaction and pro-active involvement, starting with our school district. We stand as the voice of the students and the teachers to the administration and to each other.

We are playing monthly films to unite and educate community members. 

This month's film is called Favela Rising. 

FAVELA RISING documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson’s grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever.

Refreshments will be available. 

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