President Evo

Tuesday 29th September 2009

Dir. Rodrigo Vasquez

A passionate documentary that follows the revolutionary plight of Amerindian coca farmer, Evo Morales, as he wins the 2005 Bolivian Presidential campaign and endeavours to liberate the country’s indigenous people.

With 80% of Bolivians being of indigenous descent, Evo Morales’ Presidential victory marks a well-waited change for poor Amerindians; but white landowners in Bolivia’s prosperous region, Santa Cruz, do not share the same optimism and go about creating an opposing political party in an attempt to stop Morales’ revolution to make a socialist Bolivia.

Filmed in 4 parts, the documentary accounts both parties’ views in the wake of Morale’s election and the lengths they go to, to achieve autonomy.

PUBLISHED IN TIME OUT LONDON