ABOUT

Lapa is one os the most interesting and mystical areas in Rio de Janeiro. Samba was born there in the beginning of the 20th Century but the neighbourhood found its way down from the 50's onwards, until it was one of the most dangerous and dirty parts of town. Out of the cultural circle, Lapa was abandoned until 1997 when the story began to change.

This was the year when groups of young people started to get together in the neighbourhood to remember the old sambas, business men saw a good opportunity in the empty houses and the rescue of the old days brought life back to the neighbourhood in the heart of the city.

10 years later Lapa is the biggest cultural area in Brazil, attracting more than 100 thousand people every weekend, not depending on public investments and revealing new talents of the new brazilian music scene.

Lapa Samba System is a documentary that tells this story, shows the new revelant names of the brazilian samba, pays tribute to the old masters and analyses what really happened in this transformation.

Directed by journalist Bruno Maia, the film will be released in 2009.

CREDITS

Director | Bruno Maia
Director Assistent | Mario Cascardo
Cinematographer and images by | Bruno Maia, Mario Cascardo and Eduardo Levy
Producers | Bruno Maia and Débora Gusmão
Translations | Selim Humbaraci (English and German); Olivier Marre, Ariane Coulandre and Bernardo Mortimer (French); Elisa Menezes (Spanish)
Collaborations by | Bernardo Mortimer, Thiago Camelo e Selim Humbaraci
Editing by | Bruno Maia
Motion Design | Marcelo Pereira (Tecnopop)
Audio Correction | Jonas Sá (Estúdio Sala Multimídia)
Website | Gabriel Lupi (zupa)