The Coup d'Etat Factory

The film itself is no longer available here but you can watch the panel discussion with director and his guests: Dr Francisco Dominguez, Head of Research Group on Latin America, Middlesex and Dr Stephen Wilkinson is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and Chairperson of the Humanities’ School Teaching and Learning Committee, University of Buckingham.

Media manipulation is a worldwide phenomenon, and the leading communication vehicles continue to dismantle and compromise the democratic process throughout the globe by distorting and misrepresenting the truth. Two Brazilian journalists based in London utilise Brazil as a case study for media bias and manipulation. They look at how the largest media conglomerate in the country, TV Globo, was born out of its support for the 1964 military coup d'etat, and how it helped to stage yet another coup in 2016. Comparisons are drawn with other Latin American nations and Europe.The Coup d'Etat Factory gives continuity to the 1993 British documentary entitled Beyond Citizen Kane, which also denounced the anti-democratic nature of TV Globo. Our new film demonstrates that Globo's and media's very questionable practices have hardly changed since.The movie combines archive footage with original footage, illustrations, video art, and interviews with prominent politicians and intellectuals. They include former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff , Peace Nobel Prize Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Pulitzer Prize Glenn Greenwald, iconic composer Chico Buarque and others.