El Milagro de Candeal
Academy Award winning Spanish director Fernando Trueba’s 125 minute, 2004 documentary, follows Bebo Valdés’ journey to Salvador de Bahía, Brazil to be reunited with his African roots. He discovers the favela of Candeal and sees how the life of a community can be improved through music and solidarity, where there are no firearms, but there is a music conservatory, a health center and a sound studio that attracts musicians from all over the world. Carlinhos Brown is the soul of this transformation of Candeal. Brown, Valdés, Caetano Velosa, marisa Monte and Gilberto Gil each contribute a musical cameo to this film.
Best Documentary 2005 Goya Academy Awards.
In Spanish and Portuguese with English subtitles.
THIS IS THE US PREMIERE. A concert of Javier Vercher Trio and percussionist Nacho Arimany will follow the free screening at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, between Judson Memorial Church and the Kevorkian Center (A/B/C/D/E/F/V- W 4th St station), Greenwich Village. 212.998.3650.
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