Oliver Stone’s ‘South of the Border’
September 9, 2009 by m.coonce · Leave a Comment
Oliver Stone & Hugo Chavez: 'So you want my oil?'
Oliver Stone’s new documentary ‘South of the Border’ premiered this week at the Venice film festival. The film is about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a fierce critic of American foreign policy. While the film had a good reception, Stone is concerned about getting distribution here in the US. I guess that the risks you take when your subject matter has a tendency to call people ‘the devil.’
South of the Border also seeks to demonstrate how Chavez has been unfairly demonized by the U.S. media which has cast him as a dangerous maverick who is a threat to security.
