16644: Blanchet: Jonathan Demme's Film About Jean Dominique

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Max Blanchet <MaxBlanchet@worldnet.att.net>


                      Jonathan Demme's Film About Jean Dominique

Hollywood Reporter, 2003-08-30

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Indie banner ThinkFilm has snapped up all
North
American rights to "The Agronomist," a documentary about Haitian national
hero
Jean Dominique, the journalist and freedom fighter who owned and operated
Haiti's only free radio station. Dominique was assassinated in 2000.

The Jonathan Demme-directed film is making its world premiere at the
Venice
Film Festival, which kicked off Wednesday, and is also slated to make a
North
American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.

ThinkFilm is eyeing a 2004 release date for "Agronomist,"

Demme, who won an Oscar for his work on "The Silence of the Lambs,"
previously
directed such documentaries as the Talking Heads concert film "Stop Making
Sense," "Swimming to Cambodia" and "Haiti: Dreams of Democracy." His next
film
is a remake of "The Manchurian Candidate."

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter