Johan Grimonprez

Johan Grimonprez is the director of the Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’, a film whose main theme is the assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in 1961. The events of the film take place against a much larger historical backdrop that includes the Cold War, the independence of a number African and Asian countries, their entry into the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, American imperialism, and, most importantly, the export of jazz music p (…)