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Brazil: Belo Monte, the Film

Categories: Latin America, Brazil, Citizen Media, Development, Environment, Indigenous, Media & Journalism

The film Belo Monte, Announcement of a War [1] was recently launched in the Internet. It is the result of a collective effort that involved the independent producer, Cinedelia, and a crowdfunding campaign [2]mobilized by Catarse [3]. The film shows the reactions of indigenous people, inhabitants of Altamira, Pará, Brazil, and  activists against the construction of the hydroelectric of Belo Monte, the most controversial work [4] of the federal government nowadays.