A thrilling insight into the President of Venezuela,Hugo Chavez, charting the last seven months in the run up to the April 2002 coup d’etat against him and his dramatic return to power some 48 hours later.Never has such a range of footage of Chavez,the new icon of the left and the thorn in the side of the US Administration,been assembled in one documentary. …the best television programme in the world this year …a wonderful story,brilliantly told.
2003 Banff Rockie Awards,Banff Jury President Trina McQueen,Global Television Grand Prize,BANFF Festival 2003
DIRECTORS/PHOTOGRAPHY Kim Bartley,Donnacha O ‘Briain
PRODUCER David Power
PRODUCTION COMPANY Power Pictures