Asunto: Documental: "The Revolution will not be Televised"
De: "Jessica Rosenberg" jessica@obraweb.com Fecha: Mar, 8 de Abril de 2003, 5:29 pm
Desde comienzos de este año está circulando en Estados Unidos y Europa un documental de 75 minutos acerca de Chavez, el 11 de abril, etc. Estuvo en el Festival de Cine de Texas, hoy será puesto al aire por la BBC y ha sido adquirido por otros canales y distribuidoras en Estados Unidos y Europa.
No lo he visto, pero he sabido que es muy favorable al régimen; si entran al website de los productores (www.sxsw.com), se entiende inmediatamente su ideología cuando citan como referencias de internet a Narco News y The Nation.
Pueden escribirle a los productores directamente a chavezthefilm@hotmail.com. Si prefieren contactar a la BBC, pueden hacerlo en: www.bbc.co.uk.
Por mi lado, le escribí a la BBC la nota anexa al final. Anexo el sitio web de la BBC donde anuncian el programa y el sitio web con el review del festival en Texas. Jessica Rosenberg
BBCi
CHAVEZ: INSIDE THE COUP Kim Bartley & Donnacha O'Briain, Ireland, 2002 Tuesday 8 April 2003 9pm-10.05pm; rpt 12.05am-1.10am; Friday 11 April 12.10am-1.20am
An intimate profile of the charismatic and unconventional Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the coup attempt against him and his dramatic return to power some 48 hours later.
Commissioner's Comment Nick Fraser Storyville Series Editor
When a coup was launched in April 2002 against Hugo Chavez, the elected President of Venezuela, some young Irish filmmakers were lucky enough to be on hand to witness the events.
They were actually inside the Presidential Palace - a filmmakers' dream - when the soldiers came to take Chavez away. But they were also there 48 hours later when the same soldiers switched sides reinstalling the president.
The result is a brilliant piece of journalism but it is also an astonishing portrait of the balance of forces in Venezuela. On one side stand the Versace wearing classes, rich from many decades of oil revenues, and on the other the poor in their barrios and those within the armed forces who support Chavez.
The media, who ought to be merely reporting the conflict splitting the country down the middle, are in fact adjuncts of the coup-makers.
Watch this film and you may truly for the first time in your life understand the term media bias. www.bbc.co.uk
South by Sothwest 2003 Film Festival Screening, Austin Texas, March 7-12
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Documentary Feature Screening in Special Screenings US Premiere
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is a feature length documentary on Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela. Over the course of 7 months, from January to July 2002, the filmmakers secured unprecedented access to film Chavez in his daily life. During this time, there was a coup and the filmmakers were the only crew inside the presidential palace at the time.
They were also the first there for his triumphant return some 48 hours later.On the 11th April 2002, the world awoke to the news that President Hugo Chavez had been removed from office and had been replaced by a new self-appointed "interim" government. News report after news report carried stories of the mayhem in Caracas, where 11 people had been killed in what were alleged to have been bloody street battles between Chavez supporters and an opposition march.Viewers all over the world were led to believe that Chavez had ordered the killings, and had therefore been forced to resign.What had in fact took place was the first coup of the twenty first century, and the world's first media coup."The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is a thrilling insight into President Chavez and the power of globalized media. www.sxsw.com
Dear Sirs, Considering the BBC to be an example of impartial and balanced media, I believe you should include in your Further Links section, sites that give a different point of view to visitors about the situation in Venezuela such as www.vcrisis.com and www.analitica.com. Or a less biased article such as the one by your own correspondent Nick Higham titled “TV Battle in Latin America” (news.bbc.co.uk).
“Chavez: Inside the Coup” is a highly biased documentary whose producers cannot see beyond their leftist anti-globalization dreams to contemplate the harsh truth of an inefficient and corrupt populist government that has done nothing to solve the pressing social and economic needs of our country.
Furthermore, I find derogatory comments such as “the Versace wearing classes” by Mr Nick Fraser a sure sign of total ignorance of the political situation in Venezuela. People who march by the thousands to protest against the Chavez government and demand elections are not frivolous individuals, they are citizens of all social classes fighting for their lives and their belief in a more just political and economic system. Jessica Rosenberg