THE CORPORATE COUP D’ÉTAT 
(A Q&A will follow the screening with the movie’s coproducer Jeff Cohen.)

Hollywood Reporter calls it: “A horror film of the most realistic kind."

The movie examines how we “arrived at Trump.” It travels to the “sacrifice zones” of Camden NJ and Youngstown OH to reveal how corporations have hijacked US democracy to the detriment of most citizens. Featured analysts include Chris Hedges, Cornel West, Sarah Jaffe and John Ralston Saul. The film depicts Trump as a horrific symptom of the disease called “corporatism” and features interviews with former union workers in Ohio who’d voted for Obama and Bernie Sanders . . . and then flipped to Trump.

From The Hollywood Reporter review: "Among the more powerful segments are an interview with a homeless woman who's pitched a tent near a scrapyard and shares what little she has with others in her predicament, and a worker wandering through a foreclosed house still filled with the possessions of its former occupants, including its owner who left a suicide note and hung himself in the garage. It's those human faces of income inequality that give ‘The Corporate Coup d’État’ its greatest emotional heft."

JEFF COHEN founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986, and cofounded the online activist group RootsAction.org in 2011. He has coproduced several documentaries, including “All Governments Lie” and “The Brainwashing of My Dad.” Cohen is a former TV commentator and author of “Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media.”