scintillate documentary about how a small group of idealistic young men have use music and art and dance to unify and heal the community of vigario geral and one of the most violent slum neighborhood in rio ( favela mean neighborhood in portuguese ) and offer to it young people a positive alternative to the lethal gangster world of drug trafficker . in their feature film make debut and zimbalist and mochary have craft a movie that be breathtaking because it work on so many different level . a social document and it give the fact we need to know to have a context for understand the significance of the particular story tell here . the story itself be well developed and with a strong narrative arc and and and for added measure and it be shoot through with keen suspense . there an arresting and charismatic central protagonist and anderson sa represent he a savvy natural leader and articulate and courageous and spiritually evolve and a talented performer and a visionary who walk his talk . there also plenty of music and dance to entertain . there be talk head mainly sa and his closest associate and jose junior but they be present with imaginative cinematic brilliance . the edit nicely mixes footage of differ theme and punctuate only occasionally by a few fact fill still texts . the pace be as lively a the music . a lot get accomplish in 78 minute . grupo afro reggae and the neighborhood social club that anderson and junior and a few others form in 1993 and deploy music and dance a the weapon to go up against the drug lord and the duplicitous police . they teach percussion skill to any kid who want to join a class and along with dance and martial art and a community newspaper . the only requirement for kid to belong be no smoking and no drinking and no drug . there be a subtle and soft sell spiritual fabric run through the movement and loosely base on the hindu god shiva and the destroyer of old habit . jeff zimbalist and who also be the lead cinematographer and the editor and be a modern culture and medium student at brown university . he burnish his chop edit feature documentary for pb and others and and he teach film at the new york film academy and elsewhere . matt mochary and like andrew jarecki ( capture the friedman ) do a few year ago and recently come to film from the business world . zimbalist and mochary together win the award for best new filmmaker at the 2005 tribbeca film festival and and favela rising be tie for the best film of the year in award make for 2005 by the international documentary association . i could go on for page about afro reggae and sa and and this movie . a way well idea be simply for you to go see it . my grade represent a positive .