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Kriegerin des Lichts
- Title
- Kriegerin des Lichts [videorecording] / a film written, directed and produced by Monika Treut.
- Format
- DVD, Videodisc
- Published/Produced
- Hamburg, Germany : Hynea Films : New Yorker Films, c2004.
- Description
- 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Cast
- Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, Alvaro Bezerra de Mello, Isabel Loefgren, Lucia Cavalcanti, Luciana Martha, Ayrton S. Ribeiro, Dr. Evelyn Eisenstein, Paolo Longo, Campos Amarylis Vianna, Fernanda Gorette, and: the children of Projeto Uere, featuring: Tiago, Vanessa, Jessica, Joice, Pamela.
- Credits
- Music, Jack Motta ; camera, Elfi Mikesch ; editor, Andrew Bird.
- System details
- DVD format.
- Language
- In English and Brazilian Portuguese with English subtitles.
- Summary
- Warrior of Light shot on location in Brazil is a feature-length documentary on Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, award-winning artist and human-rights activist who has gained international recognition for her work with street children in Rio. The film recounts how a woman turned her back on a wealthy lifestyle, driven into action by the execution of 8 streetkids by military police in 1993. In subsequent years Yvonne's struggle to better the lives of endangered and abandoned children has led her to found "Projeto Uere" ("Children of Light") a radical project committed to protection and education of kids who live in the streets and slums of Rio which has brought her into conflict with Brazil's wealthy elite.
- Notes
- Videodisc release of 2001 motion picture.
- Awards
- International documentary Festival Thessaloniki, Prize of the public ; Selected for International Film Festival Berlin and Toronto.
- Subject headings
- Mello, Yvonne Bezerra de.
- Kinsey subjects
- Child victims.
- Other contributors
- Treut, Monika. Mikesch, Elfi. Bird, Andrew. Motta, Jack. Mello, Yvonne Bezerra de. Hyena Films (Firm) New Yorker Films.
- ISBN
- 3898487334 9783898487337