Screen/Society--Special Events--"Toussaint Louverture"

Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Screen/Society--Special Events--"Toussaint Louverture"

Film Screening:

Toussaint Louverture
(Phillipe Niang, 2011, 180 min, Haiti, in French and Haitian Creole with English subtitles, Color, DVD)

-- There will be a reception at 5pm in the Haiti Lab, prior to the 6pm screening in C105 ("FHI Garage")!

Epic biopic about the Haitian liberation leader, who rose to become governor of the world’s first Black republic.

At the age of eight years, Toussaint Louverture sees his father, an old slave, thrown into the harbor after being judged unproductive. This will mark the young Louverture forever. As an adult, after having been freed, he led the slave revolt that leads to the independence of Haiti.

-- Winner of the Filmmaker Awards for Best Feature Narrative and Best Actor at the 2012 Pan African Film and Arts Festival!

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Haiti Lab, the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), the Center for French and Francophone Studies, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).

Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105 "Garage"