"ESCOLA DE SAMBA" FACT SHEET

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Program title: Escola de Samba

Format: 1/60-minute documentary

Release date: September 4, 2005

Rights terms: unlimited releases for four years beginning September 4, 2005 – September 3, 2009

Presenting Station: WQED Multimedia

Producing Organization: Changing Nature of Work

Brief (3-5 sentence) description:

Escola de Samba is a one-hour documentary about the creation of the Brazilian Carnival. We follow, over 10 months, how one group called “Camisa Verde e Branco” (Green and White Shirts) builds a spectacle of song and dance, with 4,000 people, to be the very best in the Sao Paulo Carnival.

Program-related Web site URL: www.workvideos.com

Viewer inquiries and station relations contact:
Lela Checco
WQED Multimedia
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Tel.: 412.622.1397
Fax: 412.622.1309

Media contact:
Gigi Saladna
WQED Multimedia
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Tel.: 412.622.1377
Fax: 412.622.6413

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