VIDEOCRACY

By Erik Gandini

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Title: VIDEOCRACY
Original title: VIDEOCRACY
Director: Erik Gandini
Genre: Documentry
Duration: 85 min
Language: English
Country of origin: Sweden
Cinematographer: Manuel Alberto Claro ,Lukas Eisenhauer
Editor: Johan Söderberg
Production Company: FASAD CINE AB
Producers: Erik Gandini
Production year: 2009
Executive producers: Kristina Åberg

In Italy one man only has kept the domination of the image over three entire decades. As a TV-magnate and then as Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi has created a perfect system of TV-entertainment and politics. Like no one else he has influenced the content of commercial television in Italy.His TV-channels, known for their over-exposure of almost naked girls, are seen by many as a mirror of his own taste and personality In VIDEOCRACY director Erik Gandini returns to his country of birth portraying from the inside the consequences of a TV-experiment that Italians have been subjected to for 30 years.

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Sheffield Documentary Film Festival
Awards: The Inaugural Special Jury Award
2009-11-04

International Documentar Filmfest Amsterdam
Awards: Mads Mikkelsen - Best Actor
2012-09-06

Åland Film Festival, Sweden
2011-09-14

Ambulante Film Festival Mexico City
2010-02-12

Amsterdam, Int.Documentary FF
2012-11-14

Århus FF
2009-11-12

ArtDocFest, Moskva
2010-12-04

Belgrade International Film Festival
2010-02-19

Bergen International Film festival
2009-10-21

Bermuda International Film Festival
2010-03-19

Biarritz
2010-01-26

Bratislava Int. FF
2009-11-27

Buenos Aires Festival de Cine Independiente
2012-09-06

Chicago Int. FF
2009-10-08

Copenhagen International Documentary Film festival
2009-11-06

DocAviv, Tel Aviv
2010-05-06

DOCPRINT
2010-01-26

Documentarist Film Festival, Istanbul
2011-05-31

Dublin International Film Festival
2010-02-18

Encounters Doc. Festival, Cape Town
2012-09-06

Filmfestival Augsburg, Germany
2010-10-15

Gijon International Film Festival
2012-01-27

Hamptons Film Festival
2009-10-08

International Documentary Film Festival Of Mexico
2009-12-15

International Film Festival Bratislava
2009-11-27

Kapittel festivalen, Stavanger
2010-09-22

Linz Crossing Europe FF
2010-04-20

Lisboa International Independent Film Festival
2010-04-23

Lithuania Scanorama Film Forum
2010-11-11

Manaki Bros
2011-10-13

Melbourne film Festival
2010-07-23

Miami International Film Festival
2011-02-24

Montréal Rencontres International Du Documentaire
2010-06-17

München Filmfestival 2010
2010-06-26

Munich Int. FF
2010-06-26

Munich International Film Festival
2010-06-26

Nordic Film Festival Rouen
2011-01-06

Nordic Film Forum Scanorama, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010-11-11

Nordisk panorama
2009-09-25

Nordox, Peking
2010-11-13

Nyon Visions du Reel, Festival du Film documentary
2010-04-15

One World Berlin Film Festival
2010-11-25

One World Romania, Bukarest
2010-03-16

San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival
2011-05-08

Sao Paulo Int. Film Festival
2009-10-23

Sevilla Film Festival
2009-11-06

Seville European Film Festival
2009-11-06

Sofia International Film Festival,
2010-04-04

Split Film Festival , Adriatic coast of Croatia
2010-05-24

Stockholm International Film Festival
2010-01-01

Stranger Than Fiction, New York
2009-10-13

Taipei Taiwan Int. Documentary Film Festival
2010-11-04

The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival, Volda
2010-04-28

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
2010-03-12

Toronto Film Festival
2009-09-10

Transilvania International Film Festival
2010-11-16

Venice Film Festival
2009-09-03

Warsaw Planete Documental Review
2011-02-12

Washington DC Int. Film Festival
2011-11-29

Zagreb Dox
2010-02-28