25779: Wayne (Announce) "Aristide and the Endless Revolution" Film Premier (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Desiree Wayne <desiree_wayne@msn.com>

“Aristide and the Endless Revolution”

by Nicolas Rossier

Scanners: The 2005 New York Video Festival
Saturday July 30th at 2pm

Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, on the plaza level at Lincoln 
Center.

Admission: $10, $7 students, $6 Film Society/AIVF members.

Box Office tel: 212/875-5601; website www.filmlinc.com.

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

Quotes from the film:

Once we have elections where we will not have weapons, bloodshed, but, on an 
equal basis, human being freely choosing the one they want to lead them, then 
we will feed our democratic process. Then we will break with the tradition of 
moving from one coup d’etat to another coup d’etat, but moving one democratic 
election to another one. That was the goal"
> PRESIDENT - J.B ARISTIDE

"When you say what’s Aristide’s future you’re also saying what’s Haiti’s 
future. You know, it’s not easy to erase people’s memories, and the people who 
I’m around, the patients, the people in hills, as you said, they’re very 
attached to this guy. And they’re not going to forget about him."
> PHYSICIAN & ANTHROPOLOGIST - PAUL FARMER

"Aristide was not perfect, but he represented an institution, if allowed to 
grow and prosper, symbolized another relationship that Haiti would have to the 
world"
> ACTOR - DANNY GLOVER

"We did conclude because of his failure to take advantage of opportunities over 
the years that he probably wasn’t going to be able to govern the country, but 
in the final analysis the decision for him to leave was a decision that he 
made"
> ASST SECRETARY OF STATE - ROGER NORIEGA

"The orders from on high are that we are to concentrate on this question, just 
how much was Aristide responsible. But we don’t have to follow the orders from 
on high, and if we’re sensible we see that the only question was how it would 
implode"
> WRITER - NOAM CHOMSKY

For press contact: Graham Leggat (gleggat@filmlinc.com; 212/875-5416)

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/programs/7-2005/nyvideofest05.htm