This story originally appeared in the May 19th, 1988 issue.
Jonathan Demme is taking questions from a couple hundred film buffs in a cramped downtown-Manhattan auditorium. He’s rummaged up a funky-but-chic coat and tie for this occasion, the first evening of the Global Village Documentary Festival. The audience has just seen his 1987 videotape piece Haiti Dreams of Democracy. One fellow naively asks where the earnings will go. “We’re a long way from profits on it,” says Demme carefully. Then he flashes a kooky sideways grin and adds, “We sold it in Iceland for $632 recently.
Jonathan Demme is taking questions from a couple hundred film buffs in a cramped downtown-Manhattan auditorium. He’s rummaged up a funky-but-chic coat and tie for this occasion, the first evening of the Global Village Documentary Festival. The audience has just seen his 1987 videotape piece Haiti Dreams of Democracy. One fellow naively asks where the earnings will go. “We’re a long way from profits on it,” says Demme carefully. Then he flashes a kooky sideways grin and adds, “We sold it in Iceland for $632 recently.
- 5/19/1988
- by Fred Schruers
- Rollingstone.com
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