The Sisters Watercolor
Sisters
Watercolor on Arches
In the collection of Keir Pearson
These two sisters are survivors of the Rwandan tradgedy, and together, a powerful
source of inspiration at the deepest level.
Monday, July 10
home | news | Issue #31.16 | Q & A | 2/23/2005
KEIR PEARSONHotel Rwanda screenwriter |
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You might think a Hollywood movie about genocide in Africa would be destined for box-office disaster. Not in the case of Hotel Rwanda, which has been nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay.Screenwriter Keir Pearson (who shares credit with the film’s director, Terry George) didn’t know he’d one day write about the Hutu slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis in 1994. Like many Americans, his recollections from that time were patchwork. “I remember seeing the pictures in The New York Times, and I remember seeing the news broadcasts of the bodies flowing down the river and choking Lake Victoria,” says Pearson, who was attending NYU Film School at the time. “And I remember reading about it and all the hand-wringing over do we get involved or don’t we get involved?” Then a friend returned from Tanzania with a story about Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu who’d given shelter to 1,200 Tutsis in the Mille Collines, the luxury hotel he managed. Pearson found himself unable to ignore the Rwandan genocide. From his home in Southern California, Pearson, who grew up in Portland, spoke to WW about the political kudzu that permitted mass murder, and how an early encounter with a Hotel Mille Collines survivor gave him the mandate to tell the story. |
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