Videocracy premieres in the U.S.

Videocracy made its debut in the U.S. on Febr 12, with extensive coverage in New York Times and Time Out New York (5 stars out of 5), accompanied by anti-Berlusconi protests outside the IFC Center in Manhattan.

There are moments in Videocracy… when it feels as if you were watching a transmission from another planet

Top film critic Manogla Dargis in a half-page review in the New York Times

...stunning, eerily atmospheric exposé... Felliniesque nightmare of a doc

Joshua Rothkopf In Time Out New York, calling Videocracy ”The film of the week”.

Videocracy… is a scathing appraisal of what Silvio Berlusconi’s media empire and its predilection for vulgarismo - Berlusconismo, Gandini calls it - has done to popular culture and the collective psyche in Italy.

John Anderson, NY Times Magazine.

A jaw-dropping documentary… a chilling, cautionary expose of Orwellian dimensions.

Kam Williams (Sly Fox) in a review that runs in print and online media across 50 states.

A group of Italian anti-Berlusconi demonstrators and supporters of the independent organisation Popolo Viola (Purple People), rallied outside the IFC Center in Manhattan at the opening of Videocracy.

Indiewire magazine reported that Videocracy ”grossed $10,000 Stateside this weekend, and was the #1 film at the IFC Center complex Saturday night.”

Coming soon: Theatrical releases in Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, UK, France…