thunderinguyana
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FILM BY SUZANNE WASSERMAN
(Suzanne Wasserman, the Director, Writer and Producer of this film is also
the cousin of Janet Jagan)
Thunder in Guyana
is a documentary film about Janet Rosenberg Jagan, who was elected
President of Guyana, South America on December 15th, 1997. She is the
first American-born woman to lead a nation. In Guyana, she is considered
the mother of the nation. The film will tell the story of this
extraordinary woman and her adopted homeland by interweaving the threads
of the director’s family’s history, Janet’s incredible life story and the
complex history of the little understood country of Guyana. This will be
accomplished through the director’s unique perspective as an historian and
as a relative.
Thunder in Guyana
has won three awards as well. Best documentary at Boston Jewish Film
Festival, the Cine Golden Eagle and at the Myhelan Indie Film Festival.
Thunder
in Guyana will also be part of the 2004-2005 season of Independent Lens on
PBS. This is a national PBS broadcast. It will probably screen in March
2005 in conjunction with Women's History Month.
Read
reviews on this documentary film: by
The Nation
Schenectady Daily Gazette
(May 2, 2003)
http://www.guyanafilm.org/proctor.pdf
Albany
Metroland
(May 1, 2003)
http://www.guyanafilm.org/night&day.pdf
The
Villager (June 11, 2003)
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_7/independentwoman.html