26787: Haiti Action: (announce) New Haiti Film at the Roxie - Aristide and the Endless Revolution -- in San Francisco

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Haiti Action Committee <haitiaction@yahoo.com>
Subject: New Haiti Film at the Roxie - Aristide and the Endless Revolution

ARISTIDE AND THE ENDLESS REVOLUTION
Directed by Nicolas Rossier.  Switzerland/USA, 2005,
82 min. In
English.

Friday, December 9 through Thursday, 15

R O X I E   C I N E M A
3117 - 16TH STREET at Valencia in San Francisco

Showtimes:  Showtimes: Nightly at 6:15, 8:00 & 9:45.
Additional Wed, Sat & Sun matinees at 2:00 & 4:30.

Speakers from the Haiti Action Committee will be
present after each 8pm show to answer questions


     A complex historical truth emerges in Nicolas
Rossier's intelligent examination revealing the
oft-supressed story of the 2004  coup d'etat in Haiti,
as well as the systemic violence and human rights
violations that erupted under the interim government.

     An interview with  the deposed president,
Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Pretoria, South Africa, is
juxtaposed with the views of a wide range of
supporters and critics, including US Assistant
Secretary of State Roger Noriega. It is not Aristide
and the Lavalas supporters who emerge looking like
thugs but international interests concerned with
suppressing popular democracy and ending the reforms
Aristide was capable of making - despite embargoes and
the need to service a debt for loans Haiti never
received.

     History repeated itself in Haiti in 2004 in that
the former parish priest had already been deposed as
president in 1991 with CIA support. His kidnapping
marked the fourth American intervention into Haiti in
90 years. This was also not the first intervention by
France. In 1801, Napoleon had the leader of free
Haiti, Toussant L'Ouverture, seized and deported to
prison in France where he died.

     While faced with the strangulation of aid,
Aristide had begun a campaign for reparations. This
provocative investigation draws out the central place
of international history in the historical poverty of
Haiti. - Vancouver Film Festival.  For more info, log
onto http://www.aristidethefilm.com/.

"Nicolas Rossier's gift to future generations......It
is a critically important work concerning an event
that should not be consigned to forgotten history"
JACK RANDOM - Author of Jazzman Chronicles

"Aristide and the Endless Revolution is a film that
should be seen
and discussed. Many of the titles at this year's VIFF
can broaden our understanding of the world, and of
others' realities. Few, however, will match Aristide
in calling forth urgent political action"
Derrick O'Keefe - Seven Oaks Magazine

"An excellent film about the sad recent political
history of Haiti
that not only provides a rich, well-detailed context
for understanding the rise and fall and rise and fall
of Aristide but also offers a provocative meditation
of the role of outside, especially American, forces
and interests in his tumultuous career."
Richard Peña -  Program Director - Film Society of
Lincoln Center

"The film is great. An awesome job of getting the
recent historical context (1991 coup, etc.) in with
the slave revolution/independence.
A non-Haiti follower is assured an exciting,
informative, powerful work ..Director Nicolas Rossier
bravely exposes this great truth: the fire of the
slave revolution continues to burn in every hungry
Haitian's heart."
Thomas Griffin -  Thomas Griffin - Author of the Human
Rights
Investigation on Haiti, March 2004, Miami School of
Law


"Compelling and informative, this documentary by
Nicolas Rossier examines events in Haiti--including
the history leading up to the 2004 kidnapping of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide--via interviews with
a wide range of opponents and supporters as well with
the former parish priest himself".
Vancouver International Film Festival