# Bolivarian Revolution in film

The Bolivarian Revolution, and related Crisis in Venezuela, have been depicted in several films, both fiction and documentary.
In reference to Latin American, but specifically several Venezuelan, films of the 21st century, Kapur and Wagner wrote that film is "an important medium" for representations of the area and that there is "enduring importance of Latin America in the international struggle to break from neoliberalism."$^{:113}$ They compare the conflicts within the Bolivarian Revolution's bases to the conflicts in Venezuelan filmmaking between the Villa del Cine and independent producers;$^{:121}$ though the Villa del Cine promotes films with a feeling of "the revolutionary context of Venezuela", its process aims to mimic a Hollywood studio system, marginalizing representation and the communal nature of revolution.$^{:122}$
Several writers on film also suggest that Western filmmakers are "drawn to" and document the Bolivarian Revolution and Crisis in Venezuela,$^{:113-122}$ and conclude that accurate media representations of the situation in the country are important.$^{:130}$ Kapur and Wagner complement some independent national filmmakers for achieving this; they have also criticized films depicting the revolution made both by the Villa del Cine, for turning stories of revolution into romanticized narratives, and internationally, for not managing to present complex full stories of the situation.$^{:113-122}$
In line with the propaganda nature of national Venezuelan media, depictions of the revolution as successful are often circulated in the nation, with 2002's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and 2004's Puente Llaguno: Claves de una Masacre still shown regularly as of 2016.$^{:236}$ Comparatively, depictions of the revolution in a negative light may be censored: in 2019, the horror film Infección, in which characters claim the zombie apocalypse at the center of the narrative was caused by the revolution, was banned.

## Documentaries

| Year | Title | Country | Director |
| 2002 | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | Ireland | Kim Bartley and Donnacha Ó Briain |
| 2004 | Chavez, Venezuela, and the New Latin America | Cuba | Aleida Guevara |
| 2004 | Puente Llaguno: Claves de una Masacre | Venezuela | Ángel Palacios |
| 2004 | X-Ray of a Lie | Venezuela | Wolfgang Schalk |
| 2006 | ¿¡Revolución!? | Canada | Charles Gervais |
| 2007 | The People and the President: A Portrait of the Bolivarian Revolution | Norway | Strønen and Wærness |
| 2008 | Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out | United States | Clifton Ross |
| 2009 | Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela | United Kingdom | Pablo Navarrete |
| 2009 | South of the Border | United States | Oliver Stone |
| 2009 | Listen to Venezuela | United States | Jyotsna Kapur and Keith B. Wagner |
| 2014 | "From the Brink: Venezuela Rising" | United States | Joseph Melhuish |
| 2014 | "Venezuela Divided" episode of Fault Lines | United States | |
| 2015 | Flor de la Mar | Venezuela | Jorge Thielen Armand |
| 2016 | El ocaso del socialismo mágico | Italy Venezuela | Michele Calabresi |
| 2017 | In the Shadow of the Revolution | Venezuela, United States | J. Arturo Albarrán and Clifton Ross |
| 2018 | Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century | Venezuela | Gustavo Tovar-Arroyo [es] |
| 2018 | El pueblo soy yo | Venezuela | Carlos Oteyza [es] |
| 2019 | Colateral | Venezuela | Lucrecia Cisneros |
| 2020 | A La Calle | Venezuela | Maxx Caicedo and Nelson G. Navarrete |
| 2020 | The Crossing | Colombia | Juliana Peñaranda-Loftus |

## Fiction films

| Year | Title | Country | Director |
| 2005 | Secuestro Express | Venezuela | Jonathan Jakubowicz |
| 2006 | Maroa | Venezuela | Solveig Hoogesteijn |
| 2009 | Libertador Morales, el Justiciero | Venezuela | Efterpi Charlambidis |
| 2010 | Hermano | Venezuela | Marcel Rasquin |
| 2012 | Blue and Not So Pink | Venezuela | Miguel Ferrari |
| 2013 | Bad Hair | Venezuela | Mariana Rondón |
| 2015 | From Afar | Venezuela | Lorenzo Vigas |
| 2016 | La Soledad | Venezuela | Jorge Thielen Armand |
| 2017 | The Family | Venezuela | Gustavo Rondón |
| 2019 | Infección | Venezuela | Flavio Pedota |
| 2020 | La Fortaleza | Venezuela | Jorge Thielen Armand |