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Trouble the Water with Danny Glover and the filmmakers
Conversation with the filmmakers and stars of Trouble the Water, Winner of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. A dramatic look into the real stories of New Orleans residents who battled Hurricane Katrina's deadly floodwaters, journeyed across post-disaster stumbling blocks, and seized a chance for a new beginning. Moderator: Judith Bell, President, PolicyLink Panelists include Danny Glover, Tia Lessin, Carl Deal, Kimberly Roberts, and Scott Roberts. Conversation with the filmmakers and stars of Trouble the Water, Winner of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. A dramati... more
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Danny Glover on New Orleans and 'Trouble the Water'
Danny Glover on post-Katrina New Orleans and the new film "Trouble the water".
More information about "Trouble the Water" can be found at http://www.troublethewaterfilm.com Danny Glover on post-Katrina New Orleans and the new film "Trouble the water". ... more -
Danny Glover a Karlovy Vary
Honeyrdripper, l'interessante film di John Sayles gia' visto a Toronto lo scorso settembre e' la storia di una comunità rurale afroamericana dell'Alabama degli anni Cinquanta alla prese con un concerto blues. Bravissimo Danny Glover nei panni di un bluesman in pensione che cerca di salvare a tutti i costi il suo club una volta famoso. Per rimetterlo in piedi conta sull'aiuto del chitarrista Sam che pero' il giorno dell'inaugurazione non e' sul treno. http://www.visum.it Honeyrdripper, l'interessante film di John Sayles gia' visto a Toronto lo scorso settembre e' la storia di una comunità... more
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Danny Glover's Haiti film lacked 'white heroes', producers said
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 the press 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.
D"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. US actor Danny Glover, who plans an epic next year on Haitian independence hero Toussaint-Louverture, said he slaved to raise funds fo... more -
Be Kind Rewind?
Current viewers give their lowdown on Jack Black's new film, Be Kind Rewind.
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Fox News censorship
Fox News have refused to air an advert about Guantanamo Bay in which Danny Glover accuses the Bush Administration of destroying the constitution.
Here's what Fox News had to say on the matter:
"We cannot approve the spot with it being Danny Glover's opinion that the Bush Administration is destroying the Constitution. If you have documentation that it is indeed being destroyed, we can look at that. Sorry about that," Fox News have refused to air an advert about Guantanamo Bay in which Danny Glover accuses the Bush Administration of destroying the co... more
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