Film chronicles canal builders at Haiti's Massacre River

I had the pleasure of watching Samuel Dameus' latest film, "The Heroes of the Massacre River," which tells a vital story of ...
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Haitian filmmaker documents Ouanaminthe canal in ‘The Heroes of the Massacre River’

Samuel Dameus, a Haitian filmmaker born in Cap-Haitien, decided to film at the construction site of the Ouanaminthe canal ...
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From Crisis to Cinematic Courage: Haiti International Film Festival Marks 10 Years of Liberation Through Storytelling

The host for the 10th Annual Haiti International Film Festival is Béchir Sylvain, a multi-hyphenate Haitian-American actor, writer, director, and producer, who stars as Leclerc in “Jurassic World ...
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Historic Haitian Film 'July 7: Who Killed the President of Haiti' Premieres tomorrow Across Global Theaters

With another Black-directed film trending globally at the box office, a strong turnout for July 7 would mark an extraordinary and meaningful accomplishment for the Haitian community—and help shift how ...

‘It became a movement': Film focuses on Haitians efforts to build Ouanaminthe canal

The film focuses on the efforts of Haitian to build an irrigation canal in the northeastern town of Ouanaminthe, "Wanament" in Haitian Creole, amid a contentious dispute over water rights between ...
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Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood is on borrowed time. A film is documenting it all

MIAMI — For decades a neighborhood in Miami known as Little Haiti has been the center of the Haitian community. But what's made the area so unique now has the attention of developers. A filmmaker ...