The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
Directed and photographed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain
Eire, 2003
74 MINUTES

IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Hugo Chávez, elected President of Venezuela in 1998,
is a colourful, unpredictable folk hero, beloved by
his nation's working class and a tough-as-nails opponent to the power
structure that would see him deposed.

Two independent
filmmakers were inside the presidential palace
on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. by a
USA/CIA approved coup junta.

They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he
was returned to power by the mobilization of the workers the poor
and patriotic sectors of the military 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 the man The Wall Street Journal
credits with making Venezuela "Washington's biggest Latin
American headache after the old standby, Cuba."<