GZero World interviews Glenn Greenwald in São Paulo

“If you're not following some people you dislike, you're doing it wrong,” tweets Ian Bremmer , political scientist, author, and president at Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy group. Breaking out of the echo chamber is the challenge Bremmer sets himself and his viewers with television series Gzero World, broadcast on American Public Television as well as online on YouTube and www.gzeromedia.com .

In the series, Bremmer travels the globe to sit down and talk with leaders and opinion formers to discuss the geopolitics reshaping the world. The term G-Zero was coined by Bremmer, referring to a shift towards a geopolitical climate in which the G7 is redundant and the G20 group are neither willing nor able to create a global agenda.

Bremmer was in Brazil last week to inteview author and journalist Glenn Greenwald for the series. Greenwald, who now lives in Brazil, is perhaps best known for the series of reports he published on US and UK surveillance states, based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Bremmer and Greenwald sat down together in São Paulo to discuss the political situation in Brazil and the USA. They compared Trump and Bolsonaro, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden amongst other political topics that will be essential viewing when it is broadcast.

Story Productions was hired by GZero Media to shoot the episode. We provided two camera operators and a sound technician, who rigged up the set with boom mics as well as lapel mics for the interviewees. This was without a doubt a conversation the Story crew were delighted to be not just filming but listening to!

UPDATE >> THE BIG INTERVIEW WITH GLENN GREENWALD IS NOW LIVE >> WATCH IT BELOW