Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá, a former drug-dealer, turns social revolutionary in one of Rio de Janeiro's most feared slums. Through music, the rhythms of the street and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent life offered by the drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. But even as liberation looms trage find out more...

Finny, Rage and Too Fine are known as 'Time Served', an up and coming hip-hop act who seem to be on the verge of breaking into the big time. However, their dreams are shattered when Too Fine is brutally murdered for unpaid 'street debts'. The remaining group, along with his sister Hope, are left to pick up the pieces. Dropped by their record company and gripped by revenge, they are sucked back into the world that they had tried so hard to escape - an uncontrollable spiral into drugs, guns, and s find out more...