Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”, showing Feb. 7-13 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre.
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.
United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup.
Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba.
Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today’s geopolitical climate.
“A bravura cinematic essay that intertwines jazz, history, and the taste of a spy thriller … a mind-blowingly rich tapestry of research, music, and the jazziest history lesson imaginable.” — Tomris Laffly, Harper’s Bazaar
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” will be shown at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre Feb. 7-13. Showtimes will be Friday, Saturday and Monday, Feb. 7, 8 and 10 at 6:30 p.m.; and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 11, 12 and 13 at 3:30 p.m.
Tickets are $12 general admission, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.
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