[Mitai-announce] [Phrj-list] Brazilian Documentary film and discussion with Director May 5

[Susan Frick]

Meet the Braz Family: A Documentary Film from Brazil

with Brazilian Journalist and Film Director Dorrit Harazim

Thursday May 5, 2005
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Location: MIT Building 4-231 http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg

*Talk is in English and film in Portuguese with English subtitles*

Co-sponsored by the MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice, Department of 
Urban Studies & Planning, Center for International Studies and the Women's 
Studies Program

"A Família Braz" (Meet the Braz Family)
Almost six million people live in the shadows of São Paulo. Among them, 
Dona Maria, Seu Toninho, and their four sons and daughters.  Through the 
lens of this family's experience, the film explores life for lower-middle 
class families struggling to survive in the outskirts of the megalopolis -- 
families who own a car, cellular telephone, and their own home yet do not 
feel part of the big city.  It brings to light key contemporary issues 
affecting the Brazilian populace including social segregation, crime, 
racism, and the marked inequity in wealth and opportunity, giving a voice 
to this otherwise invisible part of Brazil.

Dorrit Harazim is a prize-winning Brazilian journalist and film-maker, and 
has covered international affairs over the last 30 years.  She was the 
first woman journalist in Latin America to cover the Vietnam War on site, 
as she did the military coup in Chile, the Persian Gulf oil crisis, seven 
Olympic Games, and four U.S. elections.
Born in Zagreb, she started her journalism career as a reporter at 
L'Express in Paris, where she had gone to university at the Sorbonne (and, 
previously, the University of Heidelberg).  In Brazil, she started her 
journalistic career at the top Brazilian newsmagazine, VEJA, rising from 
reporter to various positions as Editor, including New York Bureau Chief 
from 1988-1993.  She continues to carry out investigative journalism - her 
current project being an investigation of the situation of Brazilian 
migrants in the Boston area, which will appear in June.
She currently writes for two top Brazilian newspapers, O Globo, and O 
Estado de São Paulo.
In recent years, she has dedicated herself to directing and producing 
films, including the documentary films that are being shown at Harvard and 
MIT this spring.

Susan Frick
Program Coordinator
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 9 Room 365
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 253 2654
Email: fricks at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/phrj
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