Movie Description:
The story of a Haitian nationalhero, journalist, and freedomfighter Jean Dominique, whomJonathan Demme first met andfilmed in 1986. As owner andoperator of his nations oldest and only free radio station Dominique was frequently at odds with his countrys variousrepressive goverments and spentmuch of the 80`s and 90`s in exhile in New York where Demmecontinued to interview him over the years. Dominique fought tirelessly against his countrysoverwhelming injustice, oppression, and poverty but it was Dominique`s shocking and still unsolved assassination in april 2000 that gavethe director the impetus to assemble more than a decades worth of material into a celebration of this dynamic man and hislegacy.
