In a big move on Brazil’s production and, indeed, NGO scene, two of its most decisive film execs, former Rio secretary of culture and RioFilme president Sergio Sa Leitao and Christian de Castro, a ...

Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro looks great on the travel poster — and is great on its famous beaches, in its famous Carnivale, and more. But Rio is also a city of vast hillside shantytowns — favelas -- where ...

The boy standing on a dusty street corner at the edge of Rio de Janeiro's favela of Vigário Geral looks in his mid-teens. The white paper kite he is flying flutters in the blue sky overhead as he ...

Since public urination seems to be a widespread problem at Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, two organizations have banded together to turn that pee into power. The Electric Pee project, by AfroReggae and ...

Rio de Janeiro is a city divided by wealth, race and music. Along the waterfront are the grand promenades and beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana, glamorised by the bossa nova stars of the late 1950s ...

To many of those unfamiliar with them, Rio de Janeiro’s favelas—dense urban settlements of cheap, sometimes illegally built dwellings and shops—are objects of fear and curiosity. Outsiders associate ...

It has been a long journey for AfroReggae from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the catwalks of Sao Paulo fashion week. The collection was described as casual and colourful by its designer Since it ...

Now in its fourth season, Globoplay original “The Anti-Kidnapping Unit” is a testament to the investment of the major Brazilian streamer in strong national content that can spawn several seasons.