Sorry To Bother You won Best First Feature at Saturday's Independent Spirit Awards.
And the film's director, Boots Riley, took his opportunity at the podium to speak about an issue important to the 47-year-old rapper/filmmaker.
'The CIA is trying to have a coup in Venezuela,' the activist warned the crowd while flanked by the film's cast and crew.
![Soapbox: Boots Riley [far left], took his opportunity at the podium to speak about an issue important to the 47-year-old rapper/filmmaker. Seen here with [L-R] Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer, Lakeith Stanfield and Jonathan Duffy](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/02/24/00/10196550-0-image-a-1_1550968689788.jpg)
Soapbox: Boots Riley [far left], took his opportunity at the podium to speak about an issue important to the 47-year-old rapper/filmmaker. Seen here with [L-R] Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer, Lakeith Stanfield and Jonathan Duffy
The multi-hyphenate, whose real name is Raymond Lawrence Riley, took to the stage with his film's star Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out), before being joined by more stars like Tessa Thompson, Steven Yeun and Armie Hammer.
The lead vocalist of The Coup said, 'There are real movements happening out there on the streets, direct action, where people are trying to change the way the world is and, rightly so, film is responding.'
'This is a film that takes place in an office place and it’s the first one that I know that has class struggle in it even though class struggle is happening every day when you’re on your jobs and you’re seeing that happen.'
'For some reason, we thought we had to edit that out of our stories.'
![The filmmakers: [L-R] Kelly Williams, George Rush, Boots Riley, Tessa Thompson, Steven Yeun, Laketh Stanfield, Jonathan Duffy and Nina Yang Bongiovi](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/02/24/00/10196568-0-image-m-7_1550969332014.jpg)
The filmmakers: [L-R] Kelly Williams, George Rush, Boots Riley, Tessa Thompson, Steven Yeun, Laketh Stanfield, Jonathan Duffy and Nina Yang Bongiovi
Riley then focused in on the political strife taking place in the troubled South American nation.
'I also wanna say that the CIA is trying to have a coup in Venezuela.'
'I haven't been watching [the news] since I've been here so they might be doing it right now, and we should all be putting our voices out to stop the US from having regime change for oil in Venezuela.'
Venezuela's National Guard fired tear gas on residents clearing a barricaded border bridge to Colombia on Saturday, as the opposition began making good on its high-risk plan to deliver US-supplied humanitarian aid despite objections from President Nicolas Maduro.
Dapper: Lakeith Stanfield strikes a red carpet pose before the show
However, many are claiming the aid mission is merely a front for CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)-sponsored political meddling in the region.
Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters claimed that the United States, 'have decided to take over Venezuela'.
And last Saturday, NPR editorialized: 'The U.S. effort to distribute tons of food and medicine to needy Venezuelans is more than just a humanitarian mission.'
'The operation is also designed to foment regime change in Venezuela — which is why much of the international aid community wants nothing to do with it.'
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Main photo article Sorry To Bother You won Best First Feature at Saturday’s Independent Spirit Awards.
And the film’s director, Boots Riley, took his opportunity at the podium to speak about an issue important to the 47-year-old rapper/filmmaker.
‘The CIA is trying to have a coup in ...
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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