Hello Blaine,
I am sorry it has taken so long. I am so consumed by the Haiti
situation, I don't know when and if I will get my old life back.
Anyway here is a list of some really good films by Haitian and non
Haitian filmmakers that really tops my lists. Some I have programmed
at various film series.
I am also sending it out to the listserv in case anyone else may be
interested.
Good luck,
Guetty
One of the first full length films to be made in Haiti by a Haitian
filmmaker is Anita by Rasoul Labuchin you should definitely get your
hands on a copy.
All of Raoul Peck's Haiti related films are worth showing documentary
and narrative:
Dessounen Dialogue avec la mort
Haitian Corner
Man by the Shore
Profit and Nothing But
Moloch Tropical (his latest)
Gospel of the Creole pig by Michelange Quay young Haitian-American
director who now lives in France.
His feature Eat for this is my body is worth showing (very artsy avant
guarde film).
By Charles Najman
Les Illumination de Mme Nerval
Royal Bonbon (Narrative)
Pascal en attendant les Anges by Hervé Cohen (I produced)
Mdam Ti Zo by David Belle on a traditional midwife in the countryside
of Jacmel
2 films by Mario Delatour:
A certain seaside about the Haitians of Middle Eastern origins
Roussan Camille a doc on one of our iconic poets
Bitter Cane by Jacques Arcelin on Haitians working on the Bateys in
the DR.
The Agronomist by Jonathan Demme on slain Haitian journalist Jean
Dominique a trained Agronomist who became a very political and
vociferous radio journalist.
Haiti tombe leve and Courage and Pain by Patricia Benoit produced by
Jonathan Demme
You should also contact Frantz Voltaire at CIDHICA in Canada, he makes
educational historical films about Haiti that are worth showing.
He also produced Potopres se panm on the urban catastrophe that Port-
au-Prince had become throughout the years. by Rigoberto Lopez a Cuban
director.
A Pig's tale by Leah Gordon and Anne Pariso narrated by Edwidge
Danticat
Also by Leah Gordon:
Atis rezistans: the sculptors of Grand Rue This doc is on the artists
of the Grand Rue in Port-au-Prince that neighborhood has been totally
devasted by the quake.
Lineaments of the lwa film essay exploring vodou culture...
Des hommes et des Dieux, by Laurence Magloire on homosexuality and
Vodou
Dreamers by Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth
his son made a film called the ghosts of Cité Soleil on the gangs in
one Haiti's dangerous slums
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