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25828: Baraka: (announce)Fwd: Aristide the Film in NY City
From: Baraka <info@barakaproductions.com>
The 2005 New York Video Festival @ the Film Society's Walter Reade
Theater at Lincoln Center presents
"Aristide and the Endless Revolution" by Nicolas Rossier
Screening Date
Saturday July 30th at 2pm (Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th
Street, on the plaza level at Lincoln Center)
website: http://www.filmlinc.com/
For screeners contact:
Graham Leggat: mailto:gleggat@filmlinc.com
or call 212/875-5416
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- About the film
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An hour south of Miami,the elected president of the Western
Hemisphere's poorest nation has twice been forced from office with
the complicity of the international community. "Aristide and the
Endless Revolution" investigates the tragic events that led to the
second violent expulsion of Jean Bertrand Aristide from Haiti. This
documentary reveals the tangled web of hope, deceit, and political
violence that has brought the world's first black republic to its
knees.
Filmmaker Nicolas Rossier (Brothers and Others) travels to Haiti,
Pretoria, Boston, Miami, New-York and Barbados to investigate the
events that led to the collapse of Aristide's government.
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- Quotes from the film
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Once we have elections where we will not have weapons, bloodshed,
but, on an equal basis, human being freely choosing the one they
want to lead them, then we will feed our democratic process. Then
we will break with the tradition of moving from one coup d'etat to
another coup d'etat, but moving one democratic election to another
one. That was the goal"
PRESIDENT - J.B ARISTIDE
"When you say what's Aristide's future you're also saying what's
Haiti's future. You know, it's not easy to erase people's memories,
and the people who I'm around, the patients, the people in hills,
as you said, they're very attached to this guy. And they're not
going to forget about him."
PHYSICIAN & ANTHROPOLOGIST - PAUL FARMER
"Aristide was not perfect, but he represented an institution, if
allowed to grow and prosper, symbolized another relationship that
Haiti would have to the world"
ACTOR & Activist - DANNY GLOVER
"We did conclude because of his failure to take advantage of
opportunities over the years that he probably wasn't going to be
able to govern the country, but in the final analysis the decision
for him to leave was a decision that he made"
ASST SECRETARY OF STATE - ROGER NORIEGA
"The orders from on high are that we are to concentrate on this
question, just how much was Aristide responsible. But we don't have
to follow the orders from on high, and if we're sensible we see that
the only question was how it would implode"
WRITER - NOAM CHOMSKY
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- About the Filmmaker
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* Nicolas Rossier *
Nicolas (Brothers and Others and Life is a Dream) holds a degree in
Economics and Political Science from the Graduate Institute of
international Studies in Geneva. Nicolas worked on several film and
theatrical productions and recently completed his third feature doc
"Aristide and the Endless Revolution" which will open soon in
theater. His latest works have appeared on the Hallmark Network,
Link TV Canadian TV, Danish TV and many other international networks
including PBS. His films have been presented in top festivals and
venues such as the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Amsterdam Documentary
film festival or the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 2001 Nicolas
founded Baraka Productions and he has now three other film projects
in production.
For full credit information and director statement visit
Soon: http://www.aristidethefilm.com
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For screeners contact:
Graham Leggat: mailto:gleggat@filmlinc.com
or call 212/875-5416
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