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</font><font face="arial" size=5>You are invited to this rare screening
at the Red Vic<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=6><b>ARISTIDE & THE ENDLESS
REVOLUTION<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>A new documentary by Swiss filmmaker
Nicolas Rossier.<br><br>
</b>It will be shown TWO NIGHTS ONLY .<br>
<i>Please forward this email to all who might be interested.<br><br>
</i>Where: <b>Red Vic Movie House</b> <br>
1727 Haight
Street, San Francisco<br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>When: <b>Wednesday, March 8, 2006</b>.
Showings at 2:00, 7:15 and 9:15<br>
<b>Thursday,
March 9, 2006</b>. Showings at 7:15 and 9:15<br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2><b>Speakers from Haiti Action Committee
at evening screenings<br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>About the film:<br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>A complex historical truth emerges in
Nicolas Rossier's<br>
intelligent examination revealing the oft-supressed story of the 2004
coup<br>
d'etat in Haiti, as well as the systemic violence and human rights<br>
violations that erupted under the interim government. An interview with
the<br>
deposed president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Pretoria, South Africa,
is<br>
juxtaposed with the views of a wide range of supporters and critics,<br>
including US Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega. It is not
Aristide<br>
and the Lavalas supporters who emerge looking like thugs but
international<br>
interests concerned with suppressing popular democracy and ending
the<br>
reforms Aristide was capable of making - despite embargoes and the need
to<br>
service a debt for loans Haiti never received. History repeated
itself in<br>
Haiti in 2004 in that the former parish priest had already been deposed
as<br>
president in 1991 with CIA support. His kidnapping marked the fourth<br>
American intervention into Haiti in 90 years. This was also not the
first<br>
intervention by France. In 1801, Napoleon had the leader of free
Haiti,<br>
Toussant L'Ouverture, seized and deported to prison in France where he
died.<br>
While faced with the strangulation of aid, Aristide had begun a campaign
for<br>
reparations. This provocative investigation draws out the central place
of<br>
international history in the historical poverty of Haiti. - Vancouver
Film<br>
Festival. For more info, log onto
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Showtimes: Nightly at 6:15, 8:00 & 9:45. Additional Wed,
Sat & Sun<br>
matinees at 2:00 & 4:30.<br><br>
More About the film:
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"Nicolas Rossier's gift to future generations......It is a
critically<br>
important work concerning an event that should not be consigned to<br>
forgotten history"<br>
JACK RANDOM - Author of Jazzman Chronicles<br><br>
"Aristide and the Endless Revolution is a film that should be
seen<br>
and discussed. Many of the titles at this year's VIFF can broaden
our<br>
understanding of the world, and of others' realities. Few, however,<br>
will match Aristide in calling forth urgent political action"<br>
Derrick O'Keefe - Seven Oaks Magazine<br><br>
"An excellent film about the sad recent poltical history of
Haiti<br>
that not only provides a rich, well-detailed context for<br>
understanding the rise and fall and rise and fall of Aristide but<br>
also offers a provocative meditation of the role of outside,<br>
especially American, forces and interests in his tumultuous
career."<br>
Richard Peņa - Program Director - Film Society of Lincoln
Center<br><br>
"The film is great. An awesome job of getting the recent
historical<br>
context (1991 coup, etc.) in with the slave revolution/independence.<br>
A non-Haiti follower is assured an exciting, informative, powerful<br>
work ..Director Nicolas Rossier bravely exposes this great truth:
the<br>
fire of the slave revolution continues to burn in every hungry<br>
Haitian's heart."<br>
Thomas Griffin - Thomas Griffin - Author of the Human Rights<br>
Investigation on Haiti, March 2004, Miami School of Law<br><br>
"Compelling and informative, this documentary by Nicolas
Rossier<br>
examines events in Haiti--including the history leading up to the<br>
2004 kidnapping of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide--via interviews<br>
with a wide range of opponents and supporters as well with the
former<br>
parish priest himself".<br>
Vancouver International Film Festival<br>
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522 Valencia Street<br>
San Francisco, CA 94110<br>
(415) 863-9977<br>
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