The awesome Haitian director Raoul Peck’s new HBO film about the Rwandan genocide, Sometimes in April, was the first film shot in Rwanda, and so he promised to debut it there as well.
Writer Melanie Thernstrom writes about attending the packed, tense screening, which was held in a giant stadium in Kigali.
A View To A Killing Field [nytimes.com]
Sometime in April premiers on HBO Mar. 19 [hbo.com]
Related: Thernstrom’s book, Halfway Heaven, about the violent deaths of two immigrant students at Harvard, and an article about Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s 2003 epic novel-like reporting in Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx [nymag]
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the making of, by greg allen