Inside The Mind Of Favela Funk

Film program, NL 2016, 70 min., port. OV + engl. UT

By: Fleur Beemster & Elise Roodenburg

“Favela Funk”, the Brazilian version of Gangsta Rap, is explicit as can be regarding drugs, violence and sex. Women are sluts and men only considered to be men when they fuck and take cocaine. The Dutch film-makers Fleur Beemster and Elise Roodenburg have travelled to Rio de Janeiro and visited the legendary bailes de corredor, immense favela street parties, to learn about “Favela Funk” themselves.