Brazil Research Task Resources

Country Profile

BBC World - Brazil Profile

Brazil UK Embassy - an excellent resource on Brazil with various links.

Festivals

Southbank Festival Brazil - Bringing the vibrant, dynamic culture of contemporary Brazil to the heart of London. Festival celebrates the country's rich cultural heritage - including music, visual arts, dance, literature, debates and food.

Barbican Brazil Film Festival - the fourth installment of Cinema of Brazil has music as its theme, screening 10 award- winning films and documentaries featuring Brazil's brightest music icons and diverse styles.

Books

	DIAS LEITE, Antonio Energy in Brazil: Towards a Renewable Energy Dominated System Earthscan Ltd 2009

	EVERETT, Daniel Don't Sleep There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle Profile Books 2008

	KINGSTONE, Peter & POWER, Timothy (Editors) Democratic Brazil Revisited University of Pittsburgh Press 2008

	GRANN, David The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon Simon & Schuster Ltd 2009

	HEMMING, John Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon Thames and Hudson 2008

	BOURNE, Richard Lula of Brazil: The Story so far Zed Books Ltd 2008

Arts Resources

The Tropicália movement was a passionate and intelligently articulated response to military dictatorship and the ultimate counter-cultural statement - a true revolution that re-defined Brazilian arts and re-shaped Brazilian identity. It was to be a brief explosion of cultural transformation and upheaval, spanning a period of no more than five years, from 1967 to 1972. Some would say that it ended only a year after it began, with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil’s arrest in December 1968. What is clear is that Tropicália changed Brazil forever.

Films

City of God - depicts the growth of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro, between the end of the '60s and the beginning of the '80s

Elite Squad - is a semi-fictional account of the Special Operations Battalion of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police.

Favela Uprising - focuses on the work of Anderson Sá, a former drug trafficker who establishes the grassroots movement Afro Reggae.

Economic Resources

Brazil Economy

Current TV - expose about long-awaited environmental restrictions on sugar cane planting in areas such as the Pantanal wetlands and the Amazon forest.

Unreported World Links:

Brazil: The Killables - Reporter Evan Williams and director Paul Kittel travel to the Brazilian city of Recife, a beach paradise visited by thousands of British tourists every year. They uncover allegations that the police are involved in death squads that have murdered thousands of 'undesirables', including hundreds of street children, every year.