The Agronomist
- Release Date: May 14, 2004
- Genre: Documentary
- Director: Jonathan Demme
- Producer(s): Jonathan Demme, Peter Saraf, Bevin McNamara
- Studio: ThinkFilm
- Length: 1h 30m
- Official Site: www.theagronomist.com
Synopsis
As owner and operator of his nation's oldest and only free radio station, Haitian journalist/freedom fighter Jean Dominique was frequently at odds with his country's various repressive governments and spent much of the '80s and early '90s in exile in New York, where Academy-Award winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme interviewed him over the years.
Dominique fought tirelessly against his country's overwhelming injustice, oppression, and poverty but it was Dominique's shocking and still-unsolved assassination in April of 2000 that gave the director the impetus to assemble more than a decade's worth of material into a celebration of this dynamic man and his legacy.