Favela Brass on TV Brasil (Brazilian national TV)

On Monday Brazilian national TV channel TV Brasil did a short piece about our project, with the children demonstrating how to play the different instruments and afterwards playing Carnaval tune “Mulata Yê-Yê-Yê” all together.

The kids played great and handled the pressure of playing for, and talking to, the camera really well:

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Bindu Mathur

Bindu Mathur was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada and worked for 10 years in London as a TV producer/director, making science and history documentaries for the BBC, Discovery and Channel 4. She also made videos for international NGOs and has filmed in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America. Resident in Rio de Janeiro since 2007 she is the owner of the award-winning Casa Beleza B&B in Santa Teresa, where she lives with her husband and two children. She is a long-time collaborator with Favela Brass including making films for the project. Her children also studied at the project.


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