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> PATRICE LUMUMBA COALITION
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> Brothers and Sisters, Comrades and Friends,
>
> It is with great pride and pleasure that I invite you to attend the
> Premiere
> and Opening Night Party to celebrate the U.S release of Raoul Peck's
> brilliant new film LUMUMBA, winner for Best Feature at the
> Pan-African Film
> Festival in Los Angeles, California, and the Paul Robeson Prize at
> the
> Pan-African Film Festival in Ouagadougu, Burkina Faso - the center
> for
> presenting African films in Africa. This event will take place on
> Wednesday,
> June 27, 2001 at the historic Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street
> near 6th
> Avenue, followed with a reception for its director Raoul Peck and
> party to
> be
> held at S.O.B.'s, located at 204 Varick Street, near W. Houston.
>
> This cinematic masterpiece is a most timely film presentation which
> dramatizes the real story of how the U.S.-led international intrigue
> usurped
> the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Patrice
> Lumumba of
> the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tragically,
> Lumumba
> was subsequently assassinated and his legitimate administration
> replaced by
> the CIA-installed regime of Col. Joseph Desire Mobutu, later to
> rename
> himself Mobutu Sese Seko, causing the Congolese people 37 years of
> gross
> exploitation and misery.
>
> The opening night events - the screening and party - is being
> organized by
> Het Heru Pictures and Imagenation Films, two film and Black music
> support
> groups headed by Sister Moikgantsi Kgama, as part of a support
> campaign
> entitled "Artists For Lumumba - Remembering the Man, Celebrating the
> Movie."
> We thank Sister Moikgantsi for her pioneering effort to once again
> welcome
> Raoul Peck, whose work has brought worldwide pride to his native
> Haiti, and
> an outstanding endorsement from the global Pan-African community and
> a
> chorus
> of critical acclaim from the film industry.
>
> As representative of the organization that has both upheld Lumumba's
> name,
> his life, work and supreme sacrifice as an outstanding example of
> uncompromising, selfless leadership to defend Africa's immense wealth
> from
> the greed of imperialist aggression and their indigenous lackies who
> collaborated to sell out their country, continent and fellow
> suffering
> Africans, I sincerely believe that this film will establish a higher
> plateau
> and more critical paradigm  for all who claim to be Black leaders.
> And
> peronally, as one who has been involved with the struggle in the
> Congo for
> over the last 40 years - from the time that Lumumba first burst on
> the world
> stage that Raoul Peck depicts in his film until today - there are not
> enough
> words to properly explain how important I consider this  exemplary
> movie.
>
> Therefore, after writing several reviews about Raoul Peck's Lumumba,
> and
> speaking about the film at different events, doing radio and
> television
> programs, let me just suggest why you should not only come out to the
> premiere on Wednesday, June 27th at the Film Forum theatre but urge
> your
> relatives and friends, even your political "enemies", to also see
> this film
> for their own personal edification. And it is important that its
> opening
> night and two week-run be strongly supported so that its audience
> participation can both be extended and expanded. The Film Forum is a
> small
> theatre, and even though a second venue will be opened two days later
> when
> Lumumba begins its run at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) in
> Brooklyn, the
> film needs maximum support.
>
> The party at S.O.B.'s which is scheduled to follow the premiere
> should also
> be supported. Whether you have already seen the film or if you, like
> many
> people have said, intend to see it again, the party is a one time
> affair. I
> will be an extraordinary affair with a stupendous array of guest
> artists.
> Hosted by TALIB KWELI, with a special Q & A opportunity with
> filmmaker RAOUL
> PECK, a performance by Haiti's LA TROUPE MAKANDAL, music spun by DJ
> REBORN,
> and special invited guests: DANNY GLOVER, STIC of Dead Prez,  DOUG E.
> DOUG,
> SISTER SOULJAH. Also appearing are former AJASS Griot & AJASS
> Repertory
> Theatre Director FRANK ADU, who starred as Patrice Lumumba in the
> 1965-67
> productions of "A Portrait of Patrice Lumumba", presenting the poetry
> and
> prose of the renowned Congolese martyr, along with the great Ghanaian
> guitarist KWAME NKRUMAH (who bears the same name as the late Ghanaian
> president, Pan-Africanist and mentor of Lumumba).
>
> The film begins at 7:45 p.m. and the party will follow immediately
> after the
> screening at 9:30. The price for attending both events is $20.00.
> Individually, the movie is $9.50 and the party is $14.00. Because of
> our
> years of work in behalf of Africa in general and the Congo and
> Lumumba in
> particular, party proceeds will benefit the PLC.
>
>


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