The Zimbabwean President will announce the election date for that country’s general election today. This week I am sharing with you this award winning documentary film that I made and put out in 2009. This is the film that ZANUPF and the Government loves to hate because it defines its responds to losing elections. The regime stopped the University of Zimbabwe from screening this documentary film last month. A Violent Response captures the post-election brutal violence of 2008 after Robert Mugabe lost the general election to Morgan Tsvangirai by 73%, and his party ZANUPF lost parliament to Tsvangirai’s MDC-T political party. The opposition was violently beaten into submission and hundreds of its supporters were killed forcing a Government of National Unity, which failed to implement the political reforms it was created to put in place, reforms that would have delivered clean, free and fair elections. I directed, produced and shot the documentary film. The film also uses stock footage. ZANUPF as a political party doesn’t exist anymore, what exists is a political shell that is used by the military and corrupt politicians to legitimize stolen elections through violence and patronage. With the election campaign now in full swing, there are many Zimbabweans in rural areas who are still carrying the trauma of 2008, that trauma is regularly harvested by ZANUPF to instill more fear in rural citizens. Rigging is a process, it is not an event. Since the election date will soon be announced, election observers must move in now to monitor the electoral process until August to salvage a bit of fairness, if it still exists at all. A Violent Response directed and produced by Hopewell Chin'ono.