Screening of successful documentary "Make the Economy Scream" in Nymphes
cinema
23 Aug 2019
/ 06:59
CORFU. Aris Hatzistefanou΄s documentary about Venezuela will be screened in Nymphes square on Sunday 25 August at 21:30.
The film won the Youth Jury Best Film Award at the 21st Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival and was successfully screened for four weeks in Athens, Thessaloniki, Nicosia and Limassol. It will be shown in several European cities and on foreign television networks.
The documentary follows a Greek journalist puzzled by Venezuela’s central role in the European political debate. Through several trips to Venezuela, he is trying to understand why the politicians in his crisis-ridden continent spend their time debating whether there is enough toilet-paper in Caracas. The reality that he discovers, traveling from the shanty-towns of the capital to the borders with Colombia, is very different from the conventional narrative on the country.
With the help of well-known economists, journalists and politicians, the documentary explains the process of Venezuela’s economic collapse. But every trip brings forward new questions: Why Venezuela is among the best countries for Bitcoin mining? Who controls the Instagram account that determines the daily exchange rate of the dollar in the black market? And is it really socialism that brought down to its knees the country with the biggest proven oil reserves in the world?
Director: Aris Hatzistefanou
Editor: Aris Triantafilos
Post-Production: Thanos Tsantas
Original Score: Ermis Giorgiadis
"Make the Economy Scream" is the fifth crowd-funding project of Moviementa Productions.
The documentary follows a Greek journalist puzzled by Venezuela’s central role in the European political debate. Through several trips to Venezuela, he is trying to understand why the politicians in his crisis-ridden continent spend their time debating whether there is enough toilet-paper in Caracas. The reality that he discovers, traveling from the shanty-towns of the capital to the borders with Colombia, is very different from the conventional narrative on the country.
With the help of well-known economists, journalists and politicians, the documentary explains the process of Venezuela’s economic collapse. But every trip brings forward new questions: Why Venezuela is among the best countries for Bitcoin mining? Who controls the Instagram account that determines the daily exchange rate of the dollar in the black market? And is it really socialism that brought down to its knees the country with the biggest proven oil reserves in the world?
Director: Aris Hatzistefanou
Editor: Aris Triantafilos
Post-Production: Thanos Tsantas
Original Score: Ermis Giorgiadis
"Make the Economy Scream" is the fifth crowd-funding project of Moviementa Productions.
