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ENTRRTAINMENT MOVIES D6 CALGARY HERALD Friday, February 4, 2005 Dallaire's journey haunts director in l-j I nun i- IIU Illimil 11 III III I I in- 1 'i i-iwi-, I On the last day of filming, Raymont said Dallaire entered the first memorial site of the genocide in Bisesero, where thousands of shattered skulls, jawbones, spinal SPOTLIGHT columns, legs and Shake Hands hands are lined up with the Devil: on tables. The Journey of It was there where Romeo Dallaire a group of Tutsis reopens today at The Uptown, caves and holes of the countryside, and were then hacked to death. "(Dallaire) knew in his heart he needed to go back to help deal with a lot of those demons," said Raymont, who spent 16 hours each day of the trip rambling through the country with Dallaire in the back of a land rover. "Seeing him on the ground in Rwanda which he hadn't done when he had written the (bestselling) book (Shake Hands with the Devil) it adds a new dimension to people's understanding of his character. "You get very close to him.

He's very open about his emotions and he's very eager for people to understand what happened, how many times he was deceived, how many times he tried to warn the world what was happening." Courtesy, CBC Retired Gen. Romeo Dallaire's return to Rwanda was an emotional journey for Dallaire and the filmmaker who followed him there. 1. 1 a rn ATLANTIS "Glorious Emertunmeiw: Pom Tium 3 i JnilVNY KVTF. ill IK DISTIN DLPP WLXSLET CIIHISTIE ambIIOI FMAN FINDINGS 2S GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM National Board Of Review Broadcast Film Critics Association IN.

Hi lr rj? r. i STARTS mmmmwMm Documentary records Rwandan experience JODIE SINNEMA CanWest News Service During the 12 days in April that Peter Raymont and his film crew spent driving through Rwanda with retired LL-Gea Romeo Dallaire and his wife, Raymont worried Dallaire would spiral back into depression. But Raymont, a documentary filmmaker who has made more than 100 films, wasn't prepared for the deep psychological impact the trip would have on his own mental state. "I was more shaken up by this project than anything I've done said Raymont about the making of the documentary he directed, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire. Last spring, Raymont travelled to Rwanda with Dallaire, who hadn't returned to the African country since 1994 when he was powerless to stop the 100-day massacre of 800,000 Tut-sis and moderate Hutus.

Dallaire was the Canadian commander of an international force of soldiers at the time. "When I came back, I was a basket case for weeks," Raymont said, although he was reluctant to compare his experience with that of Dallaire, who twice attempted suicide after his experiences in Rwanda. "I was probably suffering from a bit of post-traumatic stress myself, even though I didn't go through the genocide. I found it very difficult to function, all these feelings and images kept haunting me. I couldn't sleep." They were images that neither the media nor the international political community paid much attention to 10 years ago.

"The brutality that these killers used was unimaginable, the way they would chop up children as if they were pieces of meat or sausages. It was so inhuman," Raymont said. "It's still a mystery to me, what drives people to this level of insanity, depravity that they can pick up a machete and go next door to people they have known all their lives and hack them to death because they have been led to believe, brainwashed to believe, that these Tutsis are worthless." "It's like you or me stepping on an ant or trapping a mouse. That's how they were led to think these other human being were." Raymont said he hopes by filming Dallaire's return journey to Rwanda it will help Canadians understand what the genocide was all about a "He was like an interpreter of it," said Raymont. "We felt we were inside his head, we were so close to him." From Dl A-Channel: Open-concept A-Channel currently has 33 hours of local programming, including The Big Breakfast with co-hosts Dave Kelly and Tara McCooL As a result of the change, the channel's news programs will begin to present content that will play in other Citytv markets.

Citytv outlets are known for a street-front, high-energy open studio concept, which was previously the philosophy behind Calgary's A-Channel, which CHUM recently acquired from Alberta-based Craig Media. Ellen Baine, vice-president of programming for CHUM television, said the change doesn't mean viewers can expect duplication of the exact formula that has worked in Toronto. "Each city has its own local flavour to it," she said. Details of the new stations are still being worked out, but Baine said viewers can expect culturally diverse on-air personalities as well as lots of movies from CHUM's extensive library. The Toronto broadcaster acquired the entire Craig TV system last year after the western broadcaster encountered financial failure with the launch of its Toronto 1 station in 2003.

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