Assistant Editor, Researcher
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (2024)
Directed by Johan Grimonprez

Creative documentary, Belgium/France/Netherlands, 2024, 150 min, DCP,
16:9, Colour. Language: English, French, Dutch, Russian.

In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.

credits

Director: Johan Grimonprez
Screenwriter: Johan Grimonprez
Producers: Daan Milius, Rémi Grellety
Co-Producers: Katja Draaijer, Frank Hoevem Johan Grimonprez
Narrators: Marie Daulne, In Koli Jean Bofane, Patrick Cruise O’Brien
Edited by: Rik Chaubet
Title Design: Hans Lettany
Sound Designer: Ranko Pauković
Supervising Sound Mixer: Alek « Bunic » Goosse
Color Grader: Blaise Jadoul
Archive Researchers: Judy Aley, Rémonde Panis, Pauline Burgaud
Production Manager: Sara Skrodzkas

screenings

• (2024) Movies that Matter
Special Mention Grand Jury Documentary Award
• (2024) Cinéma du Réel
• (2024) DOCVILLE
Jury Award: Best Belgian Documentary
• (2024) CPH/DOX
• (2024) Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
Fischer Audience Award
• (2024) The Museum of Modern Art, New York City – Doc Fortnight
• (2024) Sundance Film Festival – World Cinema Documentary Competition
Special Jury Award for Cinematic Innovation, Sundance Film Festival