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Directed by
  
Rachel Boynton

Music by
  
Marcelo Zarvos

Initial release
  
1 March 2006

Screenplay
  
Rachel Boynton

7.2/10
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71%
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Written by
  
Rachel Boynton

Distributed by
  
Koch-Lorber Films

Director
  
Rachel Boynton

Awards
  
IDA Documentary Award

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Produced by
  
Rachel Boynton Sanders Goodstein Robert Kravis Steven Shainberg

Release date
  
March 12, 2005 (2005-03-12) (World Film Festival)

Cast
  
James Carville, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada

Nominations
  
Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award

Similar
  
Election movies, Political movies, Documentaries

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Our Brand Is Crisis is a 2005 documentary film by Rachel Boynton on American political campaign marketing tactics by Greenberg Carville Shrum (GCS) in the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. The election saw Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada elected President of Bolivia ahead of Evo Morales.

Contents

The film is distributed by Koch-Lorber Films.

"This film is a cautionary tale which comes at a very timely moment," said Koch-Lorber Films president Richard Lorber in a statement to indieWIRE. "The parallels to the current U.S. administration's approach to selling the war in Iraq are staggering."

Cast

  • Mauricio Balcazar (Goni's Press Advisor)
  • James Carville (GCS Strategist)
  • Tad Devine (GCS Advertising Consultant)
  • Mark Feierstein (GCS Pollster)
  • Stan Greenberg (GCS Pollster)
  • Carlos Mesa (VP Candidate)
  • Evo Morales (Opposing Candidate)
  • Jeremy Rosner (GCS Pollster)
  • Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (aka "Goni"; Bolivia's Presidential Candidate)
  • Robert Shrum
  • Tal Silberstein (GCS Management Consultant)
  • Manfred Reyes Villa (Opposing Candidate)
  • Amy Webber (GCS Associate)

    • Awards and reception

  • The film won the Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award at the 2005 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival;
  • Boynton was nominated for the Truer Than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards;
  • The film shared the International Documentary Association's top prize for Best Feature Documentary in 2005.
  • Official Selection at the 2005 South by Southwest Festival
  • Official Selection at the 2005 Edinburgh International Film Festival

    • Remake

    Actor George Clooney produced a 2015 fictionalization of Our Brand Is Crisis, starring Sandra Bullock.

    References

    Our Brand Is Crisis (2005 film) Wikipedia
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