City of God

Background info film • Budget:• $3,300,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:• £307,177 (UK) (5 January 2003) (76 Screens)

Gross:• $18,062,482 (Worldwide) (6 November 2003) (except USA)

• The end the Runts (Caixa Baixa gang) talk about making a list of people they want to kill. The rat boys grew to become the now feared CV (Comando Vermelho) or Red Command, the most notorious gang in Rio. The CV is also known to have a death list.

Awards and nominations • Academy AwardsNominated: Best Director (Fernando Meirelles) Nominated: Best Adapted Screenplay (Braulio Mantovani) Nominated: Best Cinematography (César Charlone) Nominated: Best Film Editing (Daniel Rezende)• Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film• BAFTA Film AwardsWon: Best Editing (Daniel Rezende) • Chicago Film Critics Association Awards• Won: Best Foreign Language Film• Golden Globe AwardsNominated: Best Foreign Language Film

And many more…

What is brazil famous for?• The Brazilian economy is the world's eighth largest economy by nominal

GDP and the eighth largest by purchasing power parity.Brazil is one of the world's fastest growing major economies. Economic reforms have given the country new international recognition

• Violent crime, especially in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo • The largest South American country• The only Portuguese-speaking country in South America (because they

were settled by Portugal, not Spain)

Demographics

• Brazil's population increased significantly between 1940 and 1970, due to a decline in the mortality rate, even though the birth rate underwent a slight decline.

• Brazil has a population of 190 million people, which makes it the most populous country in Latin America and the fifth most populous country in the world.

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• Approximately 29 percent of the population is between 0-14 years old, 66 percent is between 15-64 years old, and only 5 percent is over 65 years old.

• Brazil has the largest Roman Catholic population in the world.• Religion Percentage Number• Catholic 60.71 3,556,096• Protestant 17.65% 1,034,009• No religion 13.33% 781,080• Spiritist 3.44% 201,714• Umbandist 0.72% 72,946• Jewish 0.4% 23,862 23,862

Crime in Brazil

Crime • It is believed that most life-threatening crime in Brazil can be traced back

to drug trade and alcoholism.Brazil is a heavy importer of illicit cocaine, as well as part of the international drug routes. Arms and marijuana employed by criminals are mostly locally-produced.

• With roughly 23.8 homicides per 100,000 residents, muggings, robberies, kidnappings and gang violence Brazil is one of the most criminalized countries of the world

• Orgnanized crime remains a serious problem in Brazil. It is well established in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and include criminal organizations like Comando Vermelho, Amigos dos Amigos and Primeiro Comando da Capital. Brazilian

Mierelles as auteurBackground information: Born November 9, 1955 (1955-11-09) (age 55)São Paulo, Brazil Occupation Film director

• At age 12, he received a movie camera as a gift, and this hobby continued ever since.

• He studied at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of São Pauloduring the 1980s. His graduation work was done in the form of a film, instead of the traditional designs of the other students

• When studying architecture at the University of São Paulo, Meirelles became involved in experimental filmmaking

Meirelles• In 1997, Meirelles read the book City of God, by Paulo Lins. He decided

to adapt it to film, which has done in 2002, and decided that the actors on it would be selected among the inhabitants of slums.

• FilmographyMenino Maluquinho 2 (1998) Domésticas (2001) Cidade de Deus (2002) The Constant Gardener (2005) Blindness (2008) 360 (2012) (Filming) Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can (2012)

Mierelles critical acclaim

• He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his work in the Brazilian film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films. He was also nominated for the Golden Globe Best Director award in 2005 for The Constant Gardener.