26842: Minsky: DVD available Re: 26817: Ferdinand: Re: 26787: Haiti Action: (announce) New Haiti Film at the Roxie - Aristide and the Endless Revolution (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tequila Minsky <tminsky@ix.netcom.com>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kelly Hargraves
Toll free: 1-877-457-5133
kelly.hargraves@firstrunfeatures.com

First Run Features is pleased to announce the acquisition of Nicolas
Rossier's new documentary ARISTIDE and the Endless Revolution, an
intelligent and engrossing examination of the oft-suppressed story of
the 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti. The film will open in New York on
November 17 and then be released in theaters nationally and on DVD in
2006.

Only an hour south of Miami, the elected president of the Western
Hemisphere's poorest nation, Jean Bertrand Aristide, has twice been
forced from office with the complicity of the international community.
Rossier's film investigates the events that led to the second violent
expulsion of Aristide from Haiti, and reveals the tangled web of hope,
deceit, and political violence that has brought the world's first black
republic to its knees.

An in-depth interview with Aristide (now in exile in South Africa) is
juxtaposed with the views of a wide range of supporters and critics,
including US Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega. A complex
historical truth emerges as international interests concerned with
suppressing popular democracy and ending Aristide's reforms co-mingle
with embargos, debt service (for loans Haiti never received), systemic
violence and human rights violations that erupted as the situation
worsened.

"Informative and very moving. An excellent film about the recent
political history of Haiti that not only provides a rich, well-detailed
context for understanding the 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, Film
Society of Lincoln Center

"Should be added to the list of required films in every high school in
the western world."- Jack Random, Author of The Jazzman Chronicles

Producer/ Director Nicolas Rossier holds a degree in Economics and
Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies
in Geneva and has studied Theater and Film production at the School for
Visual Arts and the Lee Strasberg Institute. ARISTIDE and the Endless
Revolution is his first feature length documentary, although other
projects have appeared on the Hallmark Network, PBS, Bridges TV, Link
TV, Canadian TV, Danish TV and many other international networks, and
as well have been presented in top festivals and venues such as the
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Asia Society, the IDFA in Amsterdam or
the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 2001 Nicolas founded Baraka
Productions and has now three other films in production.

For more information including a trailer go to www.aristidethefilm.com


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