Interview with Jeff Zimbalist about Favela Rising

In case you are not aware of it, NewEnglandFilm.com has an interview with Director/Producer, Jeff Zimbalist, where he explores his development as a documentarian, the making of Favela Rising, and his hopes for the film's future.

The short term hope is that it does well commercially and critically, that will facilitate the larger hope for the film to do a big outreach campaign. We've been talking with the [several] foundations about funding an outreach campaign where we use the film in other urban areas that face similar adversity as the favelas in Rio de Janeiro face, neglect, abandonment, racism, violence, etc. What AfroReggae is doing is applicable in other urban areas. This kind of development is asset based, it's inside out. My ultimate goal is that [the film] becomes accessible beyond the normal self circulating world of development workers and documentary film lovers and introduces new concepts to the people that it's relevant for.