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THE
WEST LUSAKA MAN
DE
WEST LUSAKA MAN
The
Netherlands, 2006, 72 min., English and Dutch
Director:
Walter Stokman
Producer: Ilse van Huisstede
Cinematography: Jackó
van 't Hof
Editing: Menno Boerema; Walter
Stokman
Music: Jeroen
Goeijers
Sound: Mark Witte
Production company: VPRO
Print Source:
Martine Moonen
VPRO Sales & Festivals
Sumatralaan 49
1217 GP Hilversum
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 35 6712381
Fax: +31 35 6712252
e-mail: sales@vpro.nl
www.vpro.nl
The West Lusaka Man
Dutch
entrepreneur Roel Goosen has been sentenced to death in Zambia
for the August 30th 2001 murder of a West Lusaka woman. Roel
swears he remembers nothing of that night save for heading
down to a local bar with the hopes of catching a ride to meet
his Zambian fiancée. The next thing he knew, he was
being attacked by an angry mob accusing him of shooting a
local woman and then waking up in jail. Despite the lack of
any hard evidence to link Roel to the shooting, the testimony
of two eye-witnesses, who claim to have seen a white man with
a rifle near the woman’s house on the night in question,
was enough to convict him. Now a diplomatic resolution and
extradition back home are his only chances for survival. This
eerie and harrowing doc follows Roel’s parents as they
desperately try to prove their son’s innocence and take
him home to Holland. But interviews with Roel’s faithful
fiancée and the witnesses from the trial reveal a haunting
portrait of the case. Roel, who cannot be filmed in jail but
is given a chance to speak through pictures and letters, did
own a rifle and had army training, but was he capable of killing
another human being?
 Born
in 1966, he studied film at the Art Academy in Breda, the
Netherlands. Since 1993 he has made several documentary films,
including one about funk musician Sly Stone (LET ME HAVE IT
ALL) and one about black pop stars (CAN’T U HEAR ME
SINGIN’) Since 1997 he has also worked as a free lance
director for the TV station VPRO.
Filmography:
The West Lusaka Man (2006)
Beautiful Beaufort-Wes (2006)
Based On A True Story (2005)
Artek, the Ideal Summer Camp (2003)
ASH Worldwide Suicide (2002)
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