Brazilian Culture and Events in the Big Apple 
BrazilNYC is pleased to feature this exclusive conversation with Dona Anna Marcondes Faria, a community leader at the Morro dos Macacos, one of the largest favelas in Rio de Janeiro.
During their initial years as a muted medium, motion pictures were a globe-gamboling unicorn magically uniting the planet through their gnostic, prelapsarian eschewment of language proper.
While thousands of Brazilians celebrated the selection of Rio de Janeiro as the city to host the 2016 Olympic Games, many in Chicago, Illinois, were relieved to lose the Olympic bid.
In 1983 a baby boy is brutally taken from his mother, Marisa, by the local drug lord. Ten years later, a boy witnesses his mother’s savage murder and is forced to live on the streets.