A heat welcome and congratulations to my new colleagues Magda Desgranges and Shanaaz Mohammed for organizing a movie screening of the documentary movie Jean-Jacques Dessalines: The Man Who Defeated Napoléon Bonaparte, which not too long ago received the award for Finest Documentary by the 2022 Haiti Worldwide Movie Competition. The screening can be adopted by a and Q&A session with director Arnold Antonin. This occasion takes place on Tuesday, October 11, at 5:00pm (EST) at Lowell Thomas 019, Marist Faculty, Poughkeepsie, New York. Antonin’s movie not too long ago received the award for Finest Documentary by the 2022 Haiti Worldwide Movie Competition.
Arnold Antonin is a Haitian filmmaker who has directed movies on Haitian artwork, tradition, and historical past. He’s recognized at house and overseas for his social, political, and cultural commentary. In 2002, he acquired the Djibril Diop Mambety Award on the Worldwide Movie Competition in Cannes. He’s additionally the recipient of the Paul Robeson Finest Movie Award in 2007, 2009, and 2011. In 2021, he was acknowledged because the “Father of Haitian Cinema” for his dedication to uplifting the Haitian Diaspora by way of cinema.
His movie, Jean-Jacques Dessalines: The Man Who Defeated Napoléon Bonaparte (94-minutes lengthy) is the primary feature-length Haitian movie in regards to the Haitian Revolution and the Struggle of Independence—and the very first documentary wherever on the earth on Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Dessalines is Haiti’s predominant founder who was assassinated two years after the proclamation of independence. Right now he’s each a legendary and an unknown determine. With analyses by Pierre Buteau, Jean Casimir, Michèle Pierre-Louis, Jean Alix René, Bayyinah Bello, Vertus Saint-Louis, Jhon Picard Byron, Lesly Péan, and Daniel Elie, amongst others, this movie reintroduces Dessalines in all his complexity and opens a debate on Haitian crises and colonial heritage.
For extra info on the movie, see https://arnold-antonin-films.myshopify.com/collections/documentaries/merchandise/jean-jacques-dessalines-the-man-who-defeated-napoleon-bonaparte