The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Eat the state! (Dir. Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain). An Irish film crew traveled to Venezuela to take the pulse of President Hugo Chavez's experiment in popular democracy. They were in the country for only a few months when the three-day coup happened, and they were caught in the middle, filming every minute. This is a gripping, on-the-spot account of those tense few days when the world thought Hugo Chavez was done for. Highly recommended. This film won both the audience and jury awards for best documentary at this year's SIFF.