The REACH Opening Festival at the Kennedy Center

“Play – but with your heart, not with your head!” This moving documentary about Venezuela’s unique music education system takes us from barrios of Caracas to the world's finest concert halls. The film follows Venezuelan visionary José Antonio Abreu over the past three decades, exploring how he changed hundreds of thousands of lives. Under Abreu's guidance, children from streets dominated by the gun battles and gang warfare are taken into music schools, given access to music, and taught though the model of a symphony orchestra how to build a better society.