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May 5, 2017 · Jonathan Demme, who died last week at age 73, was best known to American audiences as the Academy Award–winning director of The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia, but to those who knew him in...
May 5, 2017 · Jonathan Demme, who died last week at age 73, was best known to American audiences as the Academy Award-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia, but to those who knew him in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora, Demme was an ardent and unwavering advocate of human rights and democracy in Haiti.
Jonathan Demme had a lifelong love for the people and culture of Haiti, and this documentary captures a key moment in the country’s history, as its people ce...
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The Agronomist is a 2003 American documentary written and directed by Jonathan Demme about Jean Dominique. The documentary follows the life of Dominique, who ran Haiti's first independent radio station, Radio Haiti-Inter, during multiple repressive regimes.
Apr 27, 2017 · Jonathan was fascinated by Haitian culture; in fact, by all things Haitian. Above all other things, though, he loved Haiti’s amazing, storied 1791 revolution; its muscular African-American-Caribbean religion; the incredibly beautiful and moving countryside; the crowded capital city and its music and art.
His documentary Haiti Dreams of Democracy (1988) captured Haiti's era of democratic rebuilding after dictatorship, while his documentary The Agronomist (2008) profiled Haitian journalist and human rights activist Jean Dominique.
May 3, 2017 · Demme characterized the national mood at the time as “a situation of perpetual fear, insecurity, and profound struggle that defines the ongoing lifestyle of the overwhelming majority of Haitian people who remain trapped in the turmoil of their tortured homeland.”
