In 1963, famed Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire pledged to teach 300 illiterate residents of a tiny town in rural Brazil how to read in just 40 hours. He succeeded and his work became hugely influential worldwide. Marco Werman talks with filmmaker Catherine Murphy about her new documentary, “A is for Angicos,” which looks back on that experiment in literacy and Freire’s legacy on the centenary of his birth.
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