For richer, for poorer / producer, Luciana Burlamaqul ; filmed & directed by Bruno Sorrentino ; TVE.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Sorrentino, Bruno, film director.

Burlamaqui, Luciana, film producer.

Kerr, Alistair, editor of moving image work.

Kelly, Brenda, film producer.

Bower, Dick (Richard), film producer.

Briers, Lucy, narrator.

Television Trust for the Environment.

Bullfrog Films.

Series:

Life (Bullfrog Films). Series 5 ; program 7.

Life series 5 ; 7

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Slums.

Wealth.

Poverty.

São Paulo (Brazil)--Economic conditions.

São Paulo (Brazil).

Poverty--Brazil--São Paulo.

Wealth--Brazil--São Paulo.

Slums--Brazil--São Paulo.

Brazil--Economic conditions--1985-.

Brazil.

Economic conditions.

Brazil--Politics and government--2003-.

Politics and government.

Brazil--São Paulo.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (25 min.) : digital, sound, color.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]

Language Note:

In English and Portuguese with English voice-overs.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Sao Paulo is Brazil's biggest city and the business hub of the country. Nested between the sky scrapers are the favelas or urban slums housing the poor. The favelas epitomize a stark fact that has come to characterize the country today: the gulf between the rich and the poor in Brazil is one of the biggest in the world. Almost half the country's wealth is concentrated in the hands of just twenty thousand families--out of a population of 184 million. Today, President Lula da Silva's big project is to make a more equal society. In his election speech, he promised to improve education, to improve health, to make land ownership fairer and--most importantly--to fight poverty. But Brazil's business community believes rapid growth is what is needed to improve the country's economy and combat social inequality. Despite the gulf between rich and poor, extreme poverty is being reduced. In line with its Millennium Development Goal pledges, Brazil has halved the percentage of people living in extreme poverty.

Participant:

Narrator, Lucy Briers.

Credits:

Editor, Alistair Kerr ; executive producer, Brenda Kelly ; series producer, Dick Bower.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: TVE, ©2005; previously released in 2006.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 24, 2017).

Originally broadcast in 2005.

Publisher Number:

bf-l5frfp Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.