Haïti Recto Verso (HRV) cherchait des informations sur les résultats du match amical de foot opposant les grenadiers d’Haïti et les socca Warriors de Trinité et Tobago. En fait aucun média haïtien avait encore mentionné ou publié les résultats de cette rencontre.
HRV a donc fouiné à travers les journaux trinitéens disponibles sur internet et HRV a retrouvé cette dépêche de l’AFP qui traite le projet controversé du film de Danny Glover sur notre Héros national TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE.
Beaucoup d’haïtiens avaient manifesté leur désaccord sur le fait que le projet soit parrainé par CHAVEZ et non pas par des haïtiens. La peur de l’adultération de notre chère histoire avait été l’un des motifs évoqués par les opposants.
HRV ne s’est jamais opposé à l’idée de réalisation de ce film et par Danny Glover et financé par Hugo Chavez. Nous voulons cependant que le résultat soit un grand film, qui puisse être vu par beaucoup de personnes.
Ceux qui ne seront pas d’accord avec la vision Danny Glover- Hugo Chavez n’auront qu’à réaliser une autre version.
Bref, voici donc un article de l’AFP dans lequel Danny Glover explique ces difficultés à trouver des investisseurs…Donc compter sur Hugo Chavez et sa mégalomanie est en quelque sorte un acte forcé don justifié.
HRV vous invite surtout à lire l’article en suivant le lien en fin de page afin de voir aussi le côté hilarant de plus de 60 commentaires publiés.
Bonne lecture !
"US actor Danny Glover, who plans an epic next year on Haitian independence hero Toussaint-Louverture, said he slaved to raise funds for the movie because financiers complained there were no white heroes.
"Producers said 'It's a nice project, a great project. where are the white heroes?'" he told AFP during a stay in Paris this month for a seminar on film.
"I couldn't get the money here, I couldn't get the money in Britain. I went to everybody. You wouldn't believe the number of producers based in Europe, and in the States, that I went to," he said.
"The first question you get, is 'Is it a black film?' All of them agree, it's not going to do good in Europe, it's not going to do good in Japan.
"Somebody has to prove that to be a lie!", he said. "Maybe I'll have the chance to prove it."
"Toussaint," Glover's first project as film director, is about Francois Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803), a former slave and one of the fathers of Haiti's independence from France in 1804, making it the first black nation to throw off imperial rule and become a republic.
The uprising he led was bloodily put down in 1802 by 20,000 soldiers dispatched to the Caribbean by Napoleon Bonaparte, who then re-established slavery after its ban by the leaders of the French Revolution.
Due to be shot in Venezuela early next year, the film will star Don Cheadle, Mos Def, Wesley Snipes and Angela Bassett.
"I wasn't the first one who had this idea," he said. "Sergey Eisenstein had the same idea, Anthony Quinn had this idea, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, and this goes on."
The "Lethal Weapon" co-star, just turned 62, finally raised 18 of the 30 million dollars needed from a Venezuelan cultural body set up in 2006 by his friend President Hugo Chavez to counter what he termed "the Hollywood film dictatorship".
Venezuelan filmmakers last year slammed the investment.
"It is Mr Glover who should be bringing dollars to Venezuela," the National Association of Film Makers and the Venezuelan Chamber of Film Producers said in an open letter.
Glover, a longtime activist, has supported Chavez's political revolution since he was first elected in 1998.
After making his debut with a bit role in 1979 movie starring Clint Eastwood, "Escape From Alcatraz", Glover played in films such as "Silverado" and "Witness" but grabbed wide attention after Steven Spielberg's 1985 movie "The Color Purple".
He is probably most widely known as "Lethal Weapon" co-star with Mel Gibson.
Born in San Francisco, he enrolled at the Black Actors Workshop there and is known for his stand against discrimination as well as for his activism against the Iraqi war and anti-personnel mines.
An admirer of the Senegalese writer-filmmaker known as the father of African cinema, Ousmane Sembene, Glover has helped produce African films, including the recently-acclaimed arthouse movie "Bamako" by Abderrahmane Sissako.
"The first African films that I saw were films that portrayed Africans as savages, ignorant and uncivilized, and I wanted to know something else," he said. "I was very fortunate, I had the chance to read writers like Mariama Ba, Aime Cesaire ... and Leopold Sedar Senghor. I read him when I was 20."
"When I saw Sidney Poitier on screen, I was probably 10 or 11," he added. "That was a different image, an image I had never seen before, on screen.
"The African-Americans I saw, they danced, they were buffoons, that was the image. So Sidney brought another image."
History, Glover said, had enabled him to play a wide range of roles because of the changes taking place in society.
"I think cinema has played a great role in our re-imagining ourselves," he said.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080725061939.qkti45ek&show_article=1
Sur la colonne de droite une minute de la bande annonce !
jeudi 31 juillet 2008
Soca Warriors blank Haiti 2-0
BY NIGEL SIMONTHE “Soca Warriors” continued their 2010 South Africa World Cup preparations with a 2-0 shut-out of reigning Digicel Cup Caribbean champions, Haiti, 2-0 in a friendly international at the Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya, yesterday.
After a less than inspiring first 45 minutes, second-half strikes from defender Keyeno Thomas and forward Cornell Glen secured a second straight win for T&T over the Haitians, who had earned a 2-1 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo in the Digicel final last year.
However, the match did not get off to a good start for the host, as minutes before the kick-off, captain Aurtis Whitley, who was expected to make a return from injury after missing the last two matches had to be replaced from the starting 11.
Whitley, picked up an ankle injury while warming up on the artificial turf surface and his place in the team was taken by winger Kevaughn Connell while the captain’s band was handed to Cyd Gray.
Seconds into the match, the Haitians were almost gifted a goal by a lethargic T&T defence, however goalkeeper Marvin Phillip was able to recover in time while at the other end the first real sign of life of attack from T&T came in the ninth minute, when Connell began a counter-attack down the left flank.
After reaching just over the half line, Connell picked out an over-lapping Gray racing down the centre of the Haitians defence, but with goalkeeper Fenelon Gabart
to beat he fired straight into the legs of the keeper.
Apart from that, the visitors enjoyed the better of the first half, stroking the ball around the field without much pressure from a very relaxed T&T midfield but with no real positive effect on the scorecard.
The Haitians should have gone ahead in the 26th minute, but striker Leonel St Preux, managed to head wide of the target from less than six yards out from a pin-point Alcenat Sony right-sided cross.
T&T’s only other real threats of the first period came via some long range free-kicks taken by England-based Christopher Birchall, and aimed at Thomas at the far post, which were all handled by the Haitians.
Speedy forward Glen also looked to be coming into his own and on a few occasions had the Haitian defenders snatching at air with his quick turns and change of pace.
But being the lone striker employed by T&T coach Francisco Maturana, he found the task too much to carry against the no-nonsene Haiti defenders.
At the intervention, Maturana seemed to have had a much needed pep talk with his players who looked much more purposeful, but the Haitians were still enjoying much of the ball with their quick and crisp inter-passing.
Against the run of play though, T&T went ahead when Thomas rose high above the Haitian defence, not for the first time in the match, to head in another well flighted Birchall free-kick.
The goal seemed to knock some wind out of the Haitians, and six minutes later, Birchall and Thomas were both involved in T&T’s second goal, scored by Glen.
From another Birchall free-kick, Thomas headed the ball back across the face of the goal from on the bye-line where an unmarked Glen chested the ball into a gaping goal.
When the final whistle came it was yet another win for coach Maturana against a Caribbean opponent and a third straight 2-0 win at Macoya, following on the heels of recent wins over Guyana and Netherland Antilles as they look ahead to the Concacaf Semifinal Round Group A World Cup Qualification home-and-away matches versus Cuba, Guatemala and USA beginning on August 20, in Havana.
The Haitians are also fine tuning their preparations for Concacaf matches against Suriname, Costa Rica and El Salvador in Group C while Group B comprises, Jamaica, Canada, Mexico and Honduras.
T&T will now journey to Port-Au-Prince to face Haiti on August 10 and then face El Salvador in Washington in another friendly on August 14 before heading to Havana for its opening Semifinal Round fixture.
http://www.guardian.co.tt/sports1.html
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