THE THREAT festival history:
One World Film Festival - Praga, FIPA - Biarritz, Jihlava IDFF, Las Americas Film Festival, Austin, Texas, Indie 2008 - Belo Horizonte, Festival de Cine de Bogotà, Mostra de Cine Latinoamericà de Catalunya, Festival du Cinéma de Bruxelles, Latin American Film Festival, Utrecht - Cinemambiente, Torino - Festival de Invierno, Montevideo -Tonicorti - Padova, Premio Libero Bizzarri, FICMA, Barcelona - Transilvania Film Festival, Cluj -Festival del documentario d'Abruzzo, Pescara - Ecofilms, Rodi - Terra di Tutti FF - Bologna, Festival de Cine LatinoAmericano -Trieste, Festival de Cine de los Derechos Humanos, Sucre, Bolivia - Festival del Cinema di Salerno, Il Cinema della Realtà, Ravenna - Festival de Cine Ambiental VOICES - Colombia, Muestra de documentales de Colombia, Euganea Movie Movement, Hai visto mai?, Siena, Ischia Film Festival, Muestra de documentales de Cali, Festival de Cine Las Ideas, Santiago de Chile, Scimmie, Firenze, Napoli Film Festival, Mostrari, Alicante - Roma Fiction Fest

Broadcasted by NHK (Japan) and TV4 (Sweden and Finland).

“Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution are the greatest threat since the time of the Soviet Union and communism”. Doctrine for Asymmetric War Against Venezuela,  U.S. Army, 2006

This is the starting point for a journey across the country which gave rise to the “red wave” in Latin America. Does Venezuela represent the dream of a new socialist society or is it just another distortion of populism and dictatorship?
A trip with President Chavez over the largest oil reserve in the world, situated beneath the Orinoco river, becomes the occasion in which to enter into the lives of Venezuelans, nine years after the beginning of the Bolivarian revolution. The government missions to fight illiteracy and hunger, the creation of a public health care system and the development of an economy based on cooperative work are some of the achievements which characterize the Chavez era.

On the other hand are the country’s 60 violent deaths a week and its collapsing hospitals, the closure of the most popular television channel, the old European immigrants in flight, the opposition black list and the ubiquitous government propaganda.
Venezuela en route to socialism: is this still possible in our post-ideological times?