26864: Haiti Action (announce) ***THIS WK ONLY*** "Aristide & the Endless Revolution" at The Roxie in San Francisco

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Haiti Action Committee <haitiaction@yahoo.com>

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

Friday, December 9-Thursday, 15

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

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

More About the film: <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 poltical
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