Rhythmic Uprising

  1. Rhythmic Uprising Trailer for Download

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    Trailer from our documentary Rhythmic Uprising. Uploaded here again for download.

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  2. Rhythmic Uprising Trailer (ENG)

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    This is the trailer/preview for the documentary Rhythmic Uprising. The film shows how vibrant Afro-Brazilian performing arts are used to fight racism, social exclusion, and poverty in Bahia, Brazil. The film outlines the transformative powers of a large movement of community cultural projects that make up the latest chapter in a creative struggle for racial equality that began four centuries ago.

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  3. Podcast || March, 2008

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    In this Rhythmic Uprising Video Podcast for March, 2008, we take a look at the work California volunteer Kati Greaney did with photography at Beje Ero. We also see how French volunteer Sophie Choupas joined forces with myself and Eric Block to make Acanne's website a reality. I talk a bit about how I left life in the US capital to edit the first version of the film at Homestead Hills in Southeast Ohio with Greg Swingle. After finishing the first…

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  4. Podcast || August, 2008

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    This is Rhythmic Uprising's Video Podcast for August, 2008. In it, director Benjamin Watkins makes the much anticipated announcement that the documentary Rhythmic Uprising has officially launched. He goes on to give a detailed account of the 5 launch screenings that Eliciana Nascimento put on throughout the city of Salvador in Brazil where the film was shot. Screening locations include the historic Teatro Vila Velha which was once the spot where…

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  5. Podcast || October, 2006

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    In this Video Podcast we cover our brief but productive filming period in September. Rhythmic Uprising director Benjamin Watkins joins forces with Paulo Rogério Nunes from the Instituto de Mídia Étnica and videographer and hip hop activist Eliciana Liz to film a long list of inspiring Bahian community leaders about the differences they're making. We filmed Mariana, Viviam and Adriane from DiDá; Mario, Anativo, and Rejane from Bejé Erô; Antonio Marcus…

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Rhythmic Uprising

Created by Benjamin Watkins Plus

Rhythmic Uprising is a documentary project that aims to produce a feature-length documentary film about social projects in Bahia, Brazil while at the same time empowering those same groups with digital video equipment donations and know-how.

Due to launch in July of 2008, the film shows how Afro-Brazilian performing arts are used to fight racism, social illness, and poverty in Bahia, Brazil. While revealing the transformative

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Rhythmic Uprising is a documentary project that aims to produce a feature-length documentary film about social projects in Bahia, Brazil while at the same time empowering those same groups with digital video equipment donations and know-how.

Due to launch in July of 2008, the film shows how Afro-Brazilian performing arts are used to fight racism, social illness, and poverty in Bahia, Brazil. While revealing the transformative powers of Bahia’s vibrant cultural inventions, community activists voice their on-going concerns and recent triumphs.

In Brazil and around the world, the celebrated Afro-Brazilian region of Bahia is synonymous with cultural proliferation. This is the largest concentration of afro-descendants outside of Africa. Terreiros de condomblé, quilombos, afoxês, blocos afros - these are the cultural conventions through which Brazil's blacks have affirmed their African heritage and waged war on poverty, racism, and oppression over the last 4 centuries.

Like many countries in the Americas, Brazil was made strong by it's enslaved African immigrants. Their sacrifice has never been repaid. As freed slave communities called "quilombos" did during the time of slavery, today's Afro-Brazilian cultural leaders are dismissing the racist, unbalanced power structures of modern Brazilian society by organizing their own microcosms - social institutions based on equality and African heritage that function as refuge and guidance for local youth. In contrast to larger Brazilian society, these groups empower and encourage their youth to become anything or anyone they want.

Saturated with Afro-Brazilian arts and music, this film documents the latest chapter in the history of black resistance in Bahia as told through the voices of project leaders and participants.

The goal of our project is to tell their story while at the same time empower them to continue telling their own stories.

Find out more at rhythmicuprising.org

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