El Sistema
El Sistema is a network of childrens and youth orchestras, music centres and workshops in Venezuela, in which more than 250,000 children and young people are currently learning to play an instrument. It was set up over thirty years ago by José Antonio Abreu, who was driven by the utopian vision of a better future. In the dangerous and poverty-stricken shanty towns of Caracas, Abreu lifts children out of poverty through music, changing both people and structures. The film El Sistema shows how Abreus astonishing ideas have led the way out of the vicious circle of poverty - and how the power of music has been able to change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people.
Starring José Antonio Abreu, Gustavo Dudamel, Frank Di Polo, Sergio Prado
Watch "El Sistema" on Amazon released in 2008. It's a documentary and music movie, and has a rating of 7.7 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie, and is currently only available for purchase or rent.
