Bus 174
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
José Padilha
Sandro Do Nascimento
Luiz Eduardo Soares
Yvonne Bezerra De Mello
Rodrigo Pimentel
Jorge Alves
Film Details
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Synopsis
A chronicle exploring what happened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 12th, 2000--Valentine's Day in Brazil--when Bus 174 was highjacked by an armed young man, Sandro do Nascimento, with a dozen passengers. Nascimento, a disillusioned slum-dweller, threatened to kill all of the passengers, but eventually agreed to surrender, as TV cameras were rolling and an entire nation was glued to their screens, watching the event take place. Regardless, a police officer then decided to fire at Nascimento anyway, accidentally killing one of the female passengers instead. What followed was a revolt among the city's population, enraged both at the police brutality and their incompetence. The crowd's reactions were comparable with the Rodney King riots. The documentary captures the media and society's responses to the event. As the chronicle intertwines the story of the standoff, it also presents biographical information about Sandro do Nascimento, which includes: his childhood as a survivor of the "Candelaria" child mass murders in the early 1990s; his subsequent adolescence in which he was sent to horrific juvenile delinquency facilities; as well, his trauma sustained from seeing his mother stabbed to death in front of him.
Cast
Sandro Do Nascimento
Luiz Eduardo Soares
Yvonne Bezerra De Mello
Rodrigo Pimentel
Crew
Jorge Alves
Sacha Ambak
Sara Bernstein
Yvonne Bezerra De Mello
Fernanda Cardoso
Aloisio Compasso
Marcelo Guru
Marcelo Guru
Felipe Lacerda
Cezar Moraes
Cezar Moraes
João Nabuco
Sheila Nevins
José Padilha
Rodrigo Pimentel
Rodrigo Pimentel
Marcos Prado
Yan Saldanha
Luiz Eduardo Soares
Film Details
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Winner of the 2004 Peabody Award from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.
Released in United States 2003
Released in United States Fall October 8, 2003
Released in United States January 2003
Released in United States October 24, 2003
Released in United States on Video July 20, 2004
Released in United States September 2003
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (World Documentary) January 16-26, 2003.
Shown at the New Directors/New Films series of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, March 26 - April 6, 2003.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival September 4, 13, 2003.
Aired in USA on Cinemax Network on March 30, 2004.
Released in United States 2003 (Shown at the New Directors/New Films series of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, March 26 - April 6, 2003.)
Released in United States January 2003 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (World Documentary) January 16-26, 2003.)
Released in United States on Video July 20, 2004
Released in United States September 2003 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival September 4, 13, 2003.)
Released in United States Fall October 8, 2003 (NY)
Released in United States October 24, 2003 (Los Angeles)
