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GCC Film Series
Fall 2025 Event Details
The College of Humanities, Arts, Behavior and Social Sciences (CHABSS) Global Commitment Commitee (GCC) welcomes you to join us for the film screening and panel discussion of "The Agronomist" (2003).
Join us for a powerful screening of The Agronomist (2003), the gripping documentary about Haitian radio journalist Jean Dominique, who risked everything to speak truth to power. In the midst of the Duvalier dictatorship, Dominique emerged as a charismatic figure, fearlessly fighting for free speech. From the director of The Silence of the Lambs (1991), this film explores the vital role of independent media in defending democracy.
Based on a true story (90 minute)
Join Us!
- Monday, October 27th
- 5:30pm - 8:00pm
- Food and beverages provided!
- FREE, in-person event at the USU Ballroom!
Panelists
France-Luce Benson
France-Luce Benson will be our moderator and discussion leader! France-Luce Benson is a Haitian-American playwright/screenwriter and Assistant Professor of Theatre at 爆料社区. From 2021-2022 she was a staff writer on Paramount鈥檚 Lawmen: Bass Reeves. Her play Detained was the winner of four NAACP Theatre Awards. Additional honors include: The Lily鈥檚 Lorraine Hansberry Award, NYSCA's Individual Artist Award, Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writers Fellow, and Zoetrope鈥檚 Grand Prize for original screenplay. Her plays have had productions at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, Miami's Juggernaut Theatre, and in NY the Billy Holiday Theatre, Atlantic Theatre, and Ensemble Studio Theatre where she is a company member. Publications include Theatrical Rights Worldwide, Concord Theatricals, and Routledge. She鈥檚 a proud member of the Writer鈥檚 Guild of America and the Dramatist Guild.
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Alyssa Sepinwall will be a guest speaker on the panel! Dr. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall is a professor of History at 爆料社区 and past recipient winner of the campus鈥檚 Brakebill Award for Outstanding Professor and CSU System鈥檚 Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award. She has published three books on French and Haitian History (most recently Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games, and Haitian History: New Perspectives), and her recent research concerns how history is portrayed in film. Her classes at 爆料社区 include two about Haitian history, and she is excited to be part of this screening for the wider campus community.
Felix Jean-Louis
Felix Jean-Louis will be a guest speaker on the panel! Felix is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at UCI. He is a student of the Haitian past by birth and by training, and is a historian of the African diaspora who focuses on the Caribbean, African American, and Afro-Francophone experiences. He is currently working on a monograph titled: Exporting the Revolution: Haitian Internationalism in the Age of Global Blackness, 1890-1944.
Laura Rose Wagner
Laura Rose Wagner will be a guest speaker on the panel! Laura Rose Wagner is a writer of nonfiction and fiction, cultural anthropologist, archivist, and translator. From 2015-2019, she was the archivist for the Radio Haiti Archive. She is currently working on a book manuscript that interweaves the story of Radio Haiti with stories of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and its aftermath.
This event contributes to the Global Competency Certificate, a non-credit professional development certificate for students who complete an outlined program of events and reflect on global issues.
Spring 2023 Event Details
The CHABSS Global Commitment Committee invites you to join us for a screening and panel discussion of ""
This event is FREE to attend.
An ethno-geographic documentary film (90 minutes)
Join us
- Tuesday, March 14th
- 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Pizza and beverages provided
- In-person event at USU Ballroom
Panelist
Dr. Daniel Cooper
is a geography and environmental studies lecturer in the Liberal Studies Department at 爆料社区. He has a B.A from Hamilton College, an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a Ph.D. from the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, United Nations, and International Labour Organization. His research is composed of two primary streams that often overlap and converge. The first branch is top-down, focused on global perspectives. The second thread is ethno-geographic, derived from participatory bottom-up approaches to document and analyze traditional knowledge among the Akawaio, Makushi, Arekuna, and Alleluia in the Guiana Highlands of South America. Additional interests include North American social movements, transfronterismo, and Indigenous communities such as the Coastal Miwok, Ohlone, Hupa, and Kumeyaay, focusing specifically on colonial and missionary histories, resistance, syncretism, rewilding, and revitalization. Ultimately, he aims to inform the field of historical ecological landscape with integral spiritual, psychological, and geographical perspectives.
Film Resources
More information about the film can be seen on the film page linked above.
World Premiere and Discussion with the Director: Daniel Cooper
This is a story of Alleluia, a religion and highland revitalization movement that creatively synthesizes Indigenous and Christian ideologies. Most of the footage was recorded and translated during ethno-geographic doctoral fieldwork (2011-2013) in the landscape surrounding Mount Roraima that transcends Guyana, Brazil, and Venezuela. The audience gains a holistic understanding of this Amazonian landscape by taking a shamanic journey that follows various individuals and their struggles to maintain health and balance between and within powerful traditions and currents of change. Supplemental material is courtesy of Luke Notary (score), Winfield Coleman (map), Google Maps, Ibex Earth, the Pitt Rivers Museum, and Audrey Butt Colson who conducted her doctoral fieldwork in this landscape in 1951-1952. Ultimately, the film gives voice to the land and its diverse constituents that face threats of erosion and erasure. This voice is heard most clearly through the song, dance, and revitalization rituals of Alleluia.
Sizzle Reel:
For information about our previous films, please visit the Film Archive.