Tickets are $15 per person
Salve Regina University
Located in the Antone Academic Center
DiStefano Lecture Hall
56 Lawrence Ave, Newport , RI
PARKING
Street parking is available on Lawrence Avenue and Leroy Avenue
There is also limited parking available at the Antone Academic Center
ACCESSIBILITY
Fully wheelchair accessible.
2025 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Feature
ABOUT THE FILM: United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today’s geopolitical climate.
6:00 PM: | Venue Opens - Light refreshments will be available! |
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7:00 PM: | Film Start |
Run time: | 150 min |
Directors: | Johan Grimonprez |
Producers: | Daan Milius, Remi Grellety |
Cinematographers: | Jonathan Wannyn |