29878: potemaksonje (reply) 29870: Kathleen (info) film shot in Cite Soleil, featuring "Billy" and JBA (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Potemaksonje@yahoo.com


The Najman film brings propaganda to a new low as its follows around the IRI 
trained protagonists in January 2004. The footage is nice because you can see 
many white people in the GNB crowd, some could be trainers or agents.  It was a 
reminder of the films by Reagan, Rod Paul & the most laughable GNB Kont Atila. 
Interviews with a gaggle of elites but very little counter reasoning, only with 
one purported "chimere" leader.  The film explains to us that Haitian poverty 
rests on the shoulders of the lord-of-all-that-is-evil-in-the-universe-Aristide 
with no effort to reveal the embargo of hundreds of millions of aid money, 
destabilization, & contra terrorism.  For a more balanced film one should buy 
or rent Rossier's "Aristide and the Endless Revolution".  This film has 
interviews from a cross segment of those supporting & those opposed to 
democracy.

The Rossier film has been the most successful of the 'coup documentaries' 
winning 2006 Pan African Film Festival with nominations & official selection at 
New York Video Festival, Buenos Aires film festival, & Amnesty Doen Award. 
Nadine Dominique, daughter of the late Jean Dominique:  “This film deserves to 
be seen by Haitians. Haiti and the people of Haiti are worth… We don’t have 
many weapons to denounce the daily atrocities that my people have been victim 
of and your film seems to be exactly what we need today.”  The New York Times , 
PBS, Paul Farmer & Professor Hyppolite Pierre have all praised the film for the 
depth and approach.


BEST QUOTE FOR 2004:
"Philippe, Cantave, Fequière, even Métayer and Nicolas were not only our 
subjects ... they were our neighbors; they were fellow countrymen and women. 
After 10 or 20 years in a place like Haiti, where people are struggling for 
change, where friends and family members die trying, where hope has turned to 
despair, a journalist becomes a little bit a part of his or her subject." -Jane 
Reagan



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