Downtown Film Festival—Los Angeles (DFFLA) will host a screening tonight of Euzhan Palcy’s 1994 documentary Aimé Césaire – Une voix pour l’histore. The screening will be this evening , August 17th, 2009 at 7:00 pm at the Downtown Independent Theater, 215 S. Main St. (L.A. 90012). The festival series is hosted by Afrique 360 and sponsored by The Africa Channel and Sistahs’ Production.
Aimé Césaire – Une voix pour l’histore (1994, USA, 56 minutes) is a monumental, three-part study that introduced American audiences to the celebrated author from the Caribbean island nation of Martinique, who coined the term negritude and launched the movement called the “Great Black Cry”. André Breton, the high priest of surrealism, described Césaire as, “a black man who embodies not simply the black race but all mankind, who will remain for me the prototype of human dignity.”
