International Musik Film Festival 2013, Kathmandu

Come hang out on the Sattya rooftop on April 14, 7pm for the closing event of the festival. We will be screening Mr. Carta the Faithful. We'll have drinks, music, and post-screening party.

Festival website:http://ktmintmusicfilm2013.wordpress.com/

Film Trailer: https://vimeo.com/9181030

Film Summary: Backed by a massive sound inferno of peak-volume bass and beats, Mr Catra sings about life in the favelas, about the ongoing wars with other criminal gangs and the military police, about sex and about hope for the future. Baile Funk is programmed on cheap equipment with powerful impact. It cannibalizes the lo-bit-sound and simplistic beatprogramming of early electro and hip-hop, the bootyshaking crudeness of miami bass, the syncopated energy and melodic sensuality of brazilian samba, and combines it with harsh sounding, yet rhythmically refined Portuguese raps.

Mr Catra’s lyrics are so explicit that the Brazilian police have coined the term Funk Proibido and have outlawed this particular genre of Baile Funk. According to Mr Catra, however, his music is only reflecting the reality of the favelas.

This film offers you an insight into a unique part of Rio de Janeiro that the official Brazilian society abstains from acknowledging. Poverty-ridden and druglord-controlled, the favelas, for the most part, are totally inaccessible to cameras. This film is the exception.