24860: Blaack (ask) re: 24859: Minsky re: May 2 short film, NYC--Thompson The Great

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john black <johnmackenzieblack@yahoo.com>


Will this film be availale or shown anywhere else - or
at some other time in NYC? Also, is Amboise going to
be in NYC, by any chance?


> Tequila Minsky <tminsky@ix.netcom.com>
>
> *Village East Cinema 181, 2nd Avenue at 12th
> street*
> NY Independent film and Video festival-May 2
> 4:10
>
> Thompson the Great*
> Director:  Kendy Vérilus
> Genre:  Fiction (Haiti)
> 13 min
>
> After 200 years of Independence, Thompson The Great
> (Amboise Thompson), 
> an octogenarian
> believes that he can talk to Jean Jacques
> Dessalines, The father of the 
> Nation. This film is about life in
> a poor country with 200 years of Independence.
>
> [Is this a variation on a theme of Royal Bon-Bon?
> Thompson plays the 
> "joker" in that film]
>
> in french:
http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=6231