The Revolution Will Not Be Televized

[pandora]

Didn't notice this one on the forum. IF YOU DID NOT SEE THIS MOVIE YOU NEED TO SEE IT>
Unbelieveable footage. Hugo let the film maker all the way in his private domain and into palace. Unfortunately at this time Hugo Chavez was kidnapped by the Right Wing media pundits and oil pundits who tried to take him out of the country if not for the allegiance of lower units of the army realizing the "new" imposed government was a load of crap, and upon surrounding of palace, revolted and took hold of the illegal government.
The footage is truly unbelievable, the people who filmed this clearly risked their lives as the right wing conspirators took the palace. A strong testimony to the reality of US politics and how real people can change the world. Unbelievable.
That this film is not nominated for an Oscar shows how shallow the whole thing is.
Beautiful bit in the plane where Hugo gives a talk on "New Liberalism" and the crap of globalism.

[RedFear]

i saw this, and agree. anyone that has the chance to must go see this film

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

It is an excellent documentary and truly highlights how media propaganda works as well as the role of the CIA in Columbia.

Essential leftist viewing and I cannot stress that enough.

[LuZhiming]

I have been interested in this film for quite a while. Does anyone have any information on where it can be obtained?

[pandora]

Information on screenings is weak, a screening in Vancouver, BC was cancelled after threats.
The website for the film is http://www.chavezthefilm.com

It has a lovely page attached: Globalisation/ Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism
at http://www.chavezthefilm.com/html/findout/global.htm
which lists ATTAC, One World, World Social Forum and Globalizacion-America Latina's websites.
The film seems to be angering all the right people, hope it helps people to ask question's, a recent article from the New York Times was entitled, something like, "Equadorian Oil Policies leave Oil Companies Questioning"
So now will we not only use 12 battalions of Green Berets in Columbia to protect the pipeline, and have problems with Chavez, but we are threatening the political policies of Equador, is there a country with oil we don't wish to puppet?

[Comité De Salut Public]

I saw it at the anti-FTAA protests in Miami's documentary film fetival. I thought it was first-rate. Why it didn't receive at least an Academy award nomination for best documentary is beyond belief.

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_review.../10/103101.html (http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2003/10/103101.html)

[pandora]

From what I understand there have been protests from the upper classes of Venezula, many who live in the United States against the film on the grounds that Chavez is trying to institute, gasp, Cuban style politics in Venezula. Also the fact we've launched a large offensive on Columbia with some movement on the border of Venezula with our green berets may be putting pressure on this.

The film maker of UNPRECEDENTED the story of the 2000 elections found she couldn't get shown at Sundance either, it wasn't until Robert Redford after viewing the film petioned to have it shown at the Sundance network but it still wasn't shown at the festival due to it's" anti-Bush rhetoric"

Long story short "censorship"