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Warrior of light

Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, a wealthy socialite, spends her days working with street kids in the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro, risking great danger in slums terrorized by drug lords.

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  • "Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, a wealthy socialite, spends her days working with street kids in the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro, risking great danger in slums terrorized by drug lords."@en
  • "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."

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  • "DVD-Video discs"@en
  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Videodiscs"@en

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  • "Warrior of light"