Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)

Released 2007, International Festivals 2008

Mandala Bala is about the ubiquity of kidnapping and corruption in Brazil. It profiles such subjects as a businessman who bullet-proofs cars, a plastic surgeon who reconstructs the ears of kidnap victims, former Governor and Senator Jáder Barbalho, a powerful and corrupt politician, and a frog farm owner whose business is a money laundering front.

[larger story: the economics of kidnapping]

Aristide Interview

Against backdrop of growing calls for Aristide’s return in Haiti we talk to him in SA
CIA in Haiti
kidnapping
exile
Unisa studies
Vision for the country