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The story of Haitian national hero Jean Dominique, "The Agronomist" represents a labor of love for the director Jonathan Demme, who first met and filmed the late journalist and freedom fighter in 1987. As owner and operator of his nations only free radio station, Radio Haiti Inter, Dominique was frequently at odds with his countrys various repressive governments and spent much of the 90s in exile in New York, where Demme continued to film him over the years. Following the successful reinstatemen
t of Haitis democratically elected government, Demee also filmed Dominiques triumphant return to Port Au Prince. But, it was Dominiques still-unsolved assassination in April of 2000, that gave the director the impetus to assemble more than a decades worth of original and archival material into a celebration of the man and his legacy. |
