Erik Gandini's Videocracy screens in Toronto.
Photo: Atmo AB
Erik Gandini's documentary Videocracy has been selected for the Toronto International Film Festival. Videocracy will screen in the Real to Reel section, which presents "the very best in non-fiction cinema from around the globe that will challenge, inspire, inform, entertain and move audiences."
In a ”videocracy” images have a decisive influence on society. In Italy one man, Silvio Berlusconi, has kept the domination of the image over three entire decades, first as a TV-magnate and then as a politician. In Videocracy 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.
- "Videocracy is a shocking and tragicomic film that exposes a new political system in which a bizarre TV culture means everything and words mean nothing. I'm fully convinced that Erik's film will attract major attention at the festival – and in the world at large," says Sara Yamashita Rüster, head of documentaries at the Swedish Film Institute's international department.
Gandini's previous documentaries include the widely acclaimed Gitmo, about the Guantánamo Bay military base (together with Tarik Saleh) and Surplus, a hard-hitting look at the consumer society.
Written by Gandini for Atmo, the film has its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. International sales is handled by TrustNordisk.
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For further information, contact:
Ann-Louice Dahlgren,
Associate producer/Publicity Manager Atmo
annlouice@atmo.se, cell +39 333 7447944, +46 708 433119
Sara Yamashita Rüster,
Head of documentaries at the Swedish Film Institute's international department
saru@sfi.se, +46 8 665 11 41
Pia Lundberg,
Head of the Swedish Film Institute's international department
pia.lundberg@sfi.se, + 46 8 665 11 39