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1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 min. 32 sec.) ; 311017517 bytes |
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Billie JD Porter explores the impact of money in one of the world's most transitional and paradoxical countries - brash, heady, brazen - Brazil. Billie digs beneath the glitz and glamour of a country which is now a breeding ground for the ultra-rich, to show what impact the concept of wealth is having on everyone.For a young girl in Brazil, turning 15 is a major milestone. It's considered the time she becomes a woman and it's an event to be celebrated. Billie follows two very different debutantes' balls. One is an ultra-lavish affair where the parents have spared no expense - spending over $100,000 to make their daughter's debutante dreams come true.The other is a debutantes' ball with a difference - because all the debutantes are poor girls from the 'favelas' - the slums. Their experience is equally life changing and special for them and their families, but it's only possible thanks to the initiative and money from the UPP - the police organisation trying to take back control of the slums from the hands of the warring drug gangs.Billie gets a sense of life in the slums and just how hard it is for millions of Brazilians who haven't benefited from the growing economic prosperity of the country.PRODUCTION DETAILS:A BBC Production, Executive Producers Lucy Hetherington, Gain Quaglieni |
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Broadcast 2014-06-18 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Consumption (Economics)
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Debutante balls.
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Drug traffic -- Social aspects.
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Marginality, Social -- Psychological aspects.
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Poor -- Social conditions.
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Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
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Streaming video
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Arce, Alicia, director
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Porter, Billie JD, host
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