Film Screening: Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Black Futures Month Film Screening and Discussion
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat. Is a fantastic film from Johan Grimonprez. We have a screening license. Some see and feel the Jazz story of the Congo.
Film starts at 6:20. No entry after 6:30. Snacks and NA drinks available.
Runtime: 2 hours 30 minutes. Discussion follows.

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ABOUT THE MOVIE

Release: 2024
Runtime: 150
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Director: Johan Grimonprez
Cast: Louis Armstrong, Andrée Blouin, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Patrice Lumumba, Nina Simone, Malcolm X

2025 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Feature. 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.

SCHEDULE

6:00 PM Doors Open
6:20 PM Film begins
6:30 PM No entry after 6:30
9:00 PM Discussion

Closed Captioning Screening

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

2114 Market St, 2114 Market Street, Denver, United States