How to Steal a Country

Original Title: How to Steal a Country

87' | 2019 (Completed)

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Director:	Rehad Desai
Producer:	Maarten Schmidt

Full credits

Based on the corruption involving Jacob Zuma, then President of South Africa, investigative journalists express their concerns about the global drift towards the ever-increasing entanglement between business and government, and the polarisation it brings.

synopsis

When a group of investigative journalists discovered far-reaching corruption involving Jacob Zuma, then President of South Africa, a pernicious disinformation campaign was mounted against the integrity of the newsroom. Then one day, two young men working in an IT company found the evidence that laid bare the entire modus operandi behind the capture of the South African state by private individuals with the help of politicians.In interviews, investigative journalists express their concerns about the global drift towards the ever-increasing entanglement between business and government, and the polarisation it brings: presidents and multinationals live unassailably in their own bubble. As a journalist, all you can do is make life in the bubble a little less comfortable. Is there still room for justice in South Africa's hard-won fledgling democracy?

Credits

Director
Rehad Desai
Producer
Maarten Schmidt
Editing
Geert Veuskens

Format

Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Doc
Production share
Minority Flemish co-production
Belgium
Genre
Year of production

2019
Production status
Completed
Original title
How to Steal a Country

Technical specs

Running time
87'
Aspect ratio
16:9
Sound format
stereo (2.0)
Colour
Colour

Contact & sales

Contact

Storyhouse

Aalststraat 7-11
1000 Brussel
Belgium

maarten@storyhousefilm.com

www.storyhousefilm.com

Details
Sales

Deckert Distribution

Gottschedstr. 18
DE-04109 Leipzig
Germany

www.deckert-distribution.com