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<\/a>The opening paragraph\u2019s reference to \u201cNorth America\u201d is a wee bit misleading, since Shooting Dogs<\/a><\/i> (2005; my review<\/a>) already played in Canada last summer, but anyhoo, Variety<\/a><\/i> says the film is finally coming to the United States \u2014 under a new title:<\/span><\/p>\n
IT\u2019S BEEN A LONG TIME coming, but \u201cShooting Dogs,\u201d the \u201cother\u201d Rwandan genocide<\/a> movie, has finally secured a North American theatrical release.<\/p>\n
New York-based Adirondack Pictures has acquired the rights and teamed with IFC Films to handle distribution.<\/p>\n
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones, pic opens March 9 with a new title for American auds: \u201cBeyond the Gates.\u201d The new moniker is meant to broaden the film\u2019s appeal beyond urban liberals, its primary audience in other territories. . . .<\/p>\n
Although the U.S. was the hardest territory to sell, Belton believes it\u2019s the market with the greatest potential. A special screening in Louisiana in April bolstered his confidence: Organized by the wife of a local professor who appeared as an extra in the film, it drew an intense response from a 650-strong, largely Christian audience.<\/p>\n
The movie also swept the jury and audience prizes at last October\u2019s Heartland Film Festival<\/a> in Indianapolis, which is dedicated to films with moral as well as artistic merit. With a heroic priest as its central character, the pic has a natural hook for the devout Midwestern crowd. . . .<\/p>\n
Indeed, the title was changed because the filmmakers felt the dramatic irony of \u201cShooting Dogs\u201d \u2014 a reference to UN soldiers who were willing to fire upon stray dogs eating dead bodies outside the compound, but not upon the hostile Hutus \u2014 was too restrictively cynical and intellectual.<\/p>\n
The film also has new opening and closing captions that emphasize its moral and spiritual dimensions. The movie opens with the Buddhist<\/a> proverb, \u201cEvery man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell,\u201d and closes with a quote from Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel: \u201cThe opposite of faith is not heresy, but indifference.\u201d . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So they\u2019re planning to promote the movie to Christians \u2014 more of that studios-looking-for-Passion<\/i>-dollars thing, no doubt \u2014 but they\u2019ve added quotes from non-Christians to the beginning and ending of the movie. Indeed, the new title, which could refer to the fact that a genocide is taking place \u201cbeyond the gates\u201d of the Catholic school \u2014 and which, for an evangelical audience, could also evoke memories of the recent documentary Beyond the Gates of Splendor<\/a><\/i> (2002) \u2014 is also closely connected to that Buddhist proverb. Hmmm. Could be interesting to see how that flies.<\/p>\n
And for what it\u2019s worth, the movie has one other marketing hook now that it didn\u2019t have before: One of its more prominent supporting actors is Claire-Hope Ashitey<\/a>, who can now be seen playing a miraculously pregnant refugee in Children of Men<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n
JAN 8 UPDATE: Incidentally, according to Amazon.ca<\/a> and the Videomatica<\/a> website, the film seems to be due for a Canadian DVD release \u2014 under its original name \u2014 on February 20.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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