INFLUENCE
SUNDAY 19 MAY 2019
10:00 1h30
Doc Corner Screening Room
INFLUENCE
Category: South African Showcase
Directed by: Richard POPLACK, Diana NEILLE
Produced by: Neil BRANDT (StoryScope), Bob MOORE (Chronicle & EyeSteelFilm)
Country of production: South Africa, Iraq, Ivory Coast, UK, USA, Chile
Original title: Influence
Completed in: November 2019
Main contact: Neil BRANDT - neil@storyscope.media
Influence examines the politiciastion of modern communication over the last 40 years – the journey from advertising to “psyops”. The film investigates how the very institutions on which our governance systems are premised are shaped and co-opted in the shadows, quietly entrenching one of the most sophisticated business ventures in recent history: the commodification of democracy.