Lawrence Bender
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About
Lawrence Bender is renowned producer and political activist whose works include Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Reservoir Dogs, among others. His work has been honored with 19 Academy Award nominations, including two for Best Picture. He received the Producers Guild Award and Golden Satellite Award nominations for Good Will Hunting, and won the 2005 Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award and the 2006 National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award for Innocent Voices, a film inspired by the true story of a boy during the Salvadoran civil war. A recipent of the ACLU Torch of Liberty Award, Bender won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature fro his latest film, An Inconvenient Truth.
Samba
For a group of young dancers and drummers, preparing for carnaval is the only escape from the violence and crime that dominate the gritty streets of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas.