Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)

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Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jason Kohn
Produced by	Julio DePietro (executive producer) Joey Frank Jared Goldman Jason Kohn
Cinematography	Heloísa Passos
Editing by	Doug Abel Jenny Golden Andy Grieve
Distributed by	City Lights Pictures
Release date(s)	2007
Running time	85 mins
Country	Brazil USA
Language	Portuguese English
IMDb profile

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) is a U.S. documentary film directed by Jason Kohn about corruption and kidnapping in Brazil.

Kohn has said "I really thought of Manda Bala as a non-fiction RoboCop depicting a very real broken and violent society." ^[1] It premiered January 20, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and had a limited release in North America on August 17, 2007.

On March 18, 2008, Manda Bala won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking at the inaugural Cinema Eye Honors.

1 Summary
2 Awards
3 Critical reception
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Summary

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Subjects profiled include a businessman who bullet-proofs his cars, a plastic surgeon who reconstructs the ears of kidnap victims, and former Governor and Senator Jáder Barbalho, a powerful Brazilian politician from the state of Pará who used a frog farm for money laundering (see SUDAM).

[edit] Awards

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary for Heloisa Passos at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.^[2]
Winner of the Special Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 BritDoc Film Festival
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking at the Cinema Eye Honors
Outstanding Achievement in Editing at the Cinema Eye Honors
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography at the Cinema Eye Honors

[edit] Critical reception

As of May 12, 2008, the film had a score of 80% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 45 reviews. On Metacritic, the film had a score of 74 out of 100 based on 5 reviews.