Brazil's massive $130 billion debt is the ultimate cause of the shocking assassination of 500 street children a year in Rio de Janeiro.
This hard-hitting docu-drama argues that the children's only crime is that they are poor and have nowhere to go. The film examines the links between Brazil's economic crisis and its tragic social and ecological plight following 500 years of domination and exploitation by Europeans, Americans, and now Japanese.
Other titles in the series are:
Lucia - The cost of an oil spill to a fishing village.
And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon - Television in the Caribbean dominated by US programs.
Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow - The darker side of the Green Revolution.
Rabi - Modern day fable on family values from Africa.
Suspended Dreams - The lasting effects of the civil war in Lebanon.
Grade Level: 10-12, College, Adult
US Release Date: 1994
Copyright Date: 1992
DVD ISBN: 1-59458-658-6
VHS ISBN: 1-56029-536-8
Reviews
"If there is a more precise and vivid essay on the root causes of Third World misery...it could not be more potent than Life and Debt." Toronto Star
"A powerful polemical film." The (London) Sunday Times
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