Rapping at Fear Named Short of the Week!
7th annual Media That Matters Film Festival winner Rapping at Fear has been named Short of the Week for April 13, 2008 by the website shortoftheweek.com.
Short of the Week's mission has been to highlight the best of the best of short films on the Internet for those who are overwhelmed by the wealth of information on the web. As their website explains, "The biggest obstacle facing viewers is finding those few gems amongst the enormous heap of garbage they're buried in. Short of the Week sifts through all that garbage and pulls out only those that are worth a viewer's precious time." A group of six guys review shorts each week and post them to their site for free for viewer's enjoyment.
Rapping at Fear is the story of teenager Andrés Tabares. Whether in the Colombian countryside before the rebels forced his family to leave, or the city slum where his family now lives, Andres has always had a way with words. In Andrés' barrio where "social cleansing" groups wage war, this thirteen-year-old writes and performs rap to speak out against violence. And people are listening.
Listen yourself now, by visiting Rapping at Fear. Then find out ways you can learn more about Colombia and Latin America and take action towards saving music education.
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