Mata Tigre – Change through Music: El Sistema FESNOJIV (Review)
| Category | Reviews |
| Written by | Brian Dorsey |
| Published on | July 30, 2011 |
Summary:
Austrian director Stefan Bohun presents moving examples of how music – especially classical music – is impacting young people’s lives in Venezuela. Mata Tigre pays respect to the organization called [...]
Austrian director Stefan Bohun presents moving examples of how music – especially classical music – is impacting young people’s lives in Venezuela. Mata Tigre pays respect to the organization called FESNOJIV, founded by economist and musician José Antonio Abreu in 1975 with the intention of rescuing young people in extremely impoverished circumstances from the environment of drug abuse and crime.
Along the way we meet Leonardo, a coffee bean harvester who is learning to play the harp; Aníbal, a young trumpet prodigy; Luis Alfredo, who dreams of playing in a symphony orchestra; Antony, an 11-year-old sifting through trash at a garbage dump, who receives his first music lesson from Henri, a music school director working to establish a youth orchestra. There are also several riveting interviews with indígenas from the Amazonas province, fighting to overcome discrimination and geographical barriers with their orchestra. A poetic, inspiring film about how music can change the world for the better.
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