NOW THE PEOPLE HAVE AWOKEN

EXPLORING VENEZUELA’S REVOLUTION

New Zealand/Venezuela 2007 • Director: Ricardo Restrepo & Julia Capon •
55 minutes • English/Spanish with English Subtitles

Festivals: Sweet Onion IFF, Red Rocks IFF, Toronto ILFF, 2007

Venezuela has been on Washington’s enemy list in recent years. It also sits atop the biggest oil reserves in the world and claims to promote a new socialism. What makes Venezuela tick? Having survived a military coup in 2002, Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chavez, is regularly depicted as the dictator squandering the wealth of the nation and repressing democratic freedoms. Who else but Venezuela’s repeatedly elected dictator would publicly call the president of the US “the devil”? The film cuts through the conventional wisdom on Venezuela, using the December 2006 elections as a spyglass for the rest of the social transformation ongoing in the country. Who is behind the “revolutionary” movement, what has it done, and what does it seek? These questions and more are analysed through interviews with Noam Chomsky, Eva Golinger, Paul Buchanan, Greg Wilpert, and Michael Fox. This is a film about the people building a new Venezuela.

Screenings

Wellington	Saturday 10 May, 3.45pm	Sunday 11 May, 7.45pm
Auckland	Saturday 17 May, 3.45pm	Sunday 18 May, 7.45pm
Christchurch	Saturday 24 May, 3.45pm	Sunday 25 May, 7.45pm
Dunedin	Saturday 31 May, 3.45pm	Sunday 1 June, 7.45pm

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2008 Dates

Wellington 8 - 16 May
Paramount Theatre

Auckland 15 - 23 May
Rialto Newmarket

Christchurch 22 - 30 May
Regent on Worcester

Dunedin 29 May - 6 June
Rialto Dunedin