Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
The Agronomist [videorecording] / [a film by Jonathan Demme ; Clinica Estetico presentation].
Call Number:
972.9 A DVD
Publisher, Date:
[United States] : New Line Home Entertainment, Inc., c2005.
Description:
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
This film tells the story of Haitian national hero, journalist, and freedom fighter Jean Dominique, whom Demme first met and filmed in 1986. As owner and operator of his nation's oldest and only free radio station, Dominique was frequently at odds with his country's various repressive governments and spent much of the 80's and early 90's in exile in New York, where Demme continued to interview him over the years. Dominique fought tirelessly against his country's overwhelming injustice, oppression, and poverty but it was his shocking and still-unsolved assassination in April of 2000 that gave the director the impetus to assemble more than a decade's worth of material into a celebration of this dynamic man's life and legacy.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: PG.
Subjects:
Dominique, Jean L. (Jean Leopold)
Montas, MicheĢle.
Political refugees -- Haiti.
Political refugees -- United States.
Haiti -- Politics and government -- 1986-
Haiti -- History -- 1986-
Genre:
Documentary films.
Other Author:
Demme, Jonathan.
Saraf, Peter.
McNamara, Bevin.
Jean, Wyclef.
Duplessis, Jerry.
Clinica Estetico, Ltd.
New Line Home Entertainment (Firm)