24417: Hermantin(News)Glover forms new film company (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>


GLOVER FORMS NEW FILM COMPANY



World Entertainment News Network

March 2, 2005


Actor and activist Danny Glover has launched a new movie production company
which will focus on films of historical relevance with social messages.

The Lethal Weapon star formed New York-based Louverture Films with
co-founder and producer/screenwriter Joslyn Barnes.

The actor's publicist Arnold Robinson says in an announcement, "(Louverture
Films) will support the employment and training of cast and crew from the
African Diaspora, minorities and/or marginalised communities."

The company plans to produce six independently financed feature and
documentary films over the next three years.

Glover will direct Louverture's historic action epic Toussaint, based on the
Haitian Revolution and the life of Toussaint Louverture, a former slave who
rallied blacks.

Another project is God's Bits Of Wood, based on the African literary classic
and written by film-maker Ousmane Sembene about the 1947 strike on the
Dakar-Niger railway that ignited the independence movement in West Africa.

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