The Coolidge Corner Theatre

$25, proceeds to benefit Partners in Health.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS

Screening In Conjunction With the 2010 Coolidge Award Program Honoring Jonathan Demme.

Please join us for a special benefit screening of Jonathan Demme’s moving documentary The Agronomist on Monday, March 1 at 2:00 pm. The screening will be introduced by Jonathan Demme, who will be here to accept the 2010 Coolidge Award and participate in related festivities. Proceeds from the screening will go to support Haiti earthquake relief efforts through the on-the-ground non-profit organization Partners in Health, co-founded by Paul Farmer, subject of Tracy Kidder's 2003 book Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World. As an incentive to encourage early ticket sales, a group of Coolidge supporters will donate a matching $3,500 to the Haiti relief efforts towards the first 140 tickets sold by February 7. Those donations, combined with the advance ticket sales to date, will be sent immediately to Partners in Health in early February.

The Agronomist is Jonathan Demme’s 2003 documentary about the life and work of Jean Dominique, human rights activist and host of the independent radio station Radio Haiti-Inter. His broadcasts throughout the early 1970s were a bold break from Haiti’s predominant government-run media, offering enlightening stories, in the native language of Creole, about global issues to the people of the island. Dominique was forced to temporarily leave Haiti twice, in the early ‘80s and again the early ‘90s, but remained an outspoken advocate for freedom of the press and the Haitian community. In 2000, after returning to his country, he was assassinated outside the radio station in Port-au-Prince. The film features a stunning soundtrack by Grammy-Award winning musician Wyclef Jean, who is also a social entrepreneur.

Partners in Health works to bring modern medical care to poor communities in nine countries around the world. Their work has three goals: to care for patients, to alleviate the root causes of disease in their communities, and to share lessons learned around the world. Based in Boston, the organization employs over 11,000 people worldwide, including doctors, nurses, and community health workers. Partners in Health has been working on the ground in Haiti for over 20 years. Visit: Partners in Health

This event will be introduced by Summer L. Williams . An active member of the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation's Board of Directors since 2005, Summer is a producer, an award-winning director and educator for Company One, a not-for profit theatre company she's been with since its inception in 1998. Ms. Williams has also directed for the BU Playwrights Theatre, Clark University, and Huntington Theatre Company. She is also a teacher of drama and director at Brookline High School and holds a B.A. in Theatre and well as a MA. Ed. in Theatre and Urban Education. Ms. Williams also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Stage Source.