it is the product of four months that ramos and her team spent in the favela, making it an authentic piece of cinema, which shows the realities of life in the harsher side of rio. 

the documentary seu jorge: the south bank show (2006) tells the remarkable story of carioca seu jorge's rise from street kid to international actor and pop star, filmed on location in his native rio de janeiro.

in the film, we see seu jorge's inspiring passage from the slums of gogo da ema, one of rio's most dangerous favelas, to international stardom following appearances in roles in the internationally acclaimed city of god and in wes anderson's film the life aquatic with steve zissou.