Jeremy Corbyn is making an appearance at Rotherhithe’s weekly film club on Friday (August 12).
The former Labour leader will be speaking at Sands Films, after a screening of The Coup d’Etat Factory, a 2021 Brazilian documentary that investigates the role of the media in the political process.
A description on Sands Films’ website says that the two directors “look at how the largest media conglomerate in the country, TV Globo, was born out of its support for the 1964 military coup d’etat, and how it helped to stage yet another coup in 2016”.
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Corbyn will take part in a panel discussion after the film, with the directors Valnei Nunes and Victor Fraga.
It has often been argued that Corbyn himself was frequently misrepresented, or even “demonised”, in the UK’s media over his four years as Labour leader between 2015 and 2019. Like TV Globo, much of the UK’s media is owned by several large corporations.
Friday’s screening is fully booked for in-person tickets, but you can still watch online here.
Sands Films, on St Marychurch Street, is an independent film studio that puts on weekly screenings of unusual or little-watched movies. The screenings are free of charge but the studio asks for a donation. The studio is perhaps best known for its 1987 production of an adaptation of Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens’ novel. The film’s cast included Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness and Miriam Margolyes.
This is not the end of the Corbyn season at Sands – on August 23, the studio is putting on Manifesto, a documentary that looks at a local Labour party in Liverpool at the time of Corbyn’s leadership of the national party.