Film is winner of many awards including Best Documentary, 2003 Prix Italia. Brookline Community Center For The Arts
7 PM: Outfoxed and
8:30 PM:
14 Green Street; $5 Suggested Contribution
Outfoxed
(Back by popular demand-- sold out house last weekend!)
Examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have beenrunning a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.
[or it opens at the Coolidge 9/17--SG]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Directed and Photographed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain, Ireland, 2003
74 min, in Spanish with Enghish subtitles
On April 12th 2002 the world awoke to the news that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had been removed from office and had been replaced by a new interim government. What had in fact taken place was the first Latin American coup of the 21st century, and the world's first media coup...Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état. It's a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of Chavez, who just won 58% of the popular vote in a referendum on his Presidency.
Posted by sciencegrrl at August 22, 2004 05:21 PM