Might Venezuela be perceived as a thorn in the side?
Vanessa. Of course, because of the oil. Here we have a country where natural resources serve the people, and no longer multinational companies. For some, this is the world upside down! As a matter of fact, there, as one student said to me: "Now, the pyramid has been inverted so that everyone would have rights."
How exactly did the idea behind this film dawn on you?
Vanessa. By accident. I had heard a lot about Venezuela, and I had the opportunity to travel there. Well, I didn't want to arrive empty-handed. It so happened that in Brussels, I had just directed a few brief videos of mini street polls to find out what people thought of Bush, Iraq, Europe....So, I told myself: "I am going to bring them a small contribution: What do the people here think of Venezuela, what information have they received, what questions do they ask themselves?" I told myself that it would be useful for them to know how Venezuela is perceived here...
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It's probably best that I don't go on to become a socialist leader, then. I would have had them swinging from the nearest streetlights. I guess that would have given the US all the reason it needed to impose harsh economic sanctions on Venezuela, aka Cuba II.
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