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Director
Monika Treut
Cast
Yvonne Bezerra de Mello,
Álvaro Bezerra de Mello
Genre
Documentary
A feature-length documentary on Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, award-winning artist and human-rights activist who has gained international recognition for her work with street children in Rio. The film recounts how a woman turned her back on a wealthy lifestyle, driven into action by the execution of 8 streetkids by military police in 1993. In subsequent years Yvonne's struggle to better the lives of endangered and abandoned children has led her to found "Projeto Uere" ("Children of Light") a radical project committed to protection and education of kids who live in the streets and slums of Rio which has brought her into conflict with Brazil's wealthy elite.
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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
It would be foolish for a middle-class do-gooder confronting homeless children on the streets of Rio de Janeiro to expect conventional morality to have any meaning to them at all. That's one of the blunt, no-nonsense observations of Yvonne Bezarra de Mello, the Brazilian human rights activist profiled in Monika Treut's hard-headed documentary.
Variety by Eddie Cockrell
Universally embraceable subject matter, coupled with helmer's sterling rep as benevolent booster of humanistic pioneers.
New York Post by V.A. Musetto
Heartbreaking.
Village Voice
The best moments feature Uerê's children themselves.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
De Mello's dedication is inspiring enough to speak for itself.
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