El Sistema

Year: 2008

Runtime: 120 mins

Language: English

Directors: Paul Smaczny, Maria Stodtmeier

Documentary

El Sistema is a Venezuelan network of youth orchestras, music centers and workshops teaching 250,000 young people to play instruments. Founded thirty years ago by José Antonio Abreu, the program lifts children from Caracas’s slums out of poverty, reshaping lives. The documentary follows his vision, showing how music broke the cycle of deprivation.

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