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DESCRIPTION:THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED - Length, 74 minutes\nDaily: 7:00, 
 9:00 / Saturday, Sunday & Wednesday: 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 
 \nDocumentary filmmakers sometimes get lucky. You begin making a film about 
 one thing and, all of a sudden, you’re in the middle of something quite 
 different. It takes more than proximity to make a great documentary though. 
 You have to have the vision and talent to tell the story in a compelling 
 and intelligent fashion. Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain are both lucky 
 and good. They were four months into shooting a film about Venezuelan 
 President Hugo Chavez when they found themselves in the middle of history. 
 Venezuela in early 2002 was a chaotic place. A former general, Chavez had 
 been elected in a landslide and had set out to reform the country’s 
 corrupt oil industry—to redirect the profits of the world’s 
 third-largest oil producing country back to the people of Venezuela. Chavez 
 also made alliances with Fidel Castro and denounced American foreign policy 
 and intervention in other countries. These acts did not endear him to the 
 Venezuelan oligarchy and their cronies in Washington. The opposition 
 controlled five television stations to the government’s one and the media 
 drumbeat against Chavez was steady. After the opposition leader flew to 
 Washington and met with Bush and other administration officials, the 
 opposition media called for demonstrations against Chavez. The people 
 reacted by surrounding the presidential palace to protect him. Snipers 
 opened fire on the crowd, and members of the crowd returned fire. However, 
 the footage shown to the world was edited to eliminate the snipers and give 
 the impression that Chavez’s supporters had shot at themselves. It was 
 the world’s first attempted media coup produced and abetted by the US 
 government. Bartley and O’Briain capture what really happened and how the 
 coup was defeated (including the pitter-patter of little feet scurrying 
 about in DC). The film is by no means propaganda; Bartley and O’Briain 
 had almost unlimited access to all the players in this drama: Chavez, the 
 opposition, and the people of Venezuela. (2003) 74m.\nwww.chavezthefilm.com 
 \n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/25623.php
SUMMARY:The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
LOCATION:The Castro Theatre\n429 Castro St. @ Market
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/25623.php
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