Rachelle Salnave wins Best Director!

Major kudos to director Rachelle Salnave who won Best Director for her documentary "La Belle Vie" at the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora film festival in New York over the weekend. "La Belle Vie: The Good Life" has been quite successful on the festival circuit, earning Salnave a Best Director nod at the BlackStar Film Festival. The film also aired on local television in South Florida. Again, big ups to Rachelle! You make us proud!

Photo from Ms. Salnave's social media page. 

A treasure trove of Haitian short films!

Filmmaker Michele Stephenson has a treasure trove of brilliant short films that I absolutely love. Most relevant today is "Delmas 54" which looks into Haitian-Dominican relations through the eyes of volunteers. 

Stephenson is 1/2 of the filmmaking team behind "American Promise" a documentary on the state of the educational system in the U.S. "American Promise" screened at the Sundance Film Festival, was picked up by PBS and was nominated for 3 Emmys. 

Check out the shorts on Black Public Media's site here ---- http://blackpublicmedia.org/haiti/

AFM is fast approaching!

It's almost that time of the year again. The American Film Market kicks off in about three weeks in Santa Monica, CA. AFM is a marketplace where movie buyers and sellers from all over the globe converge to buy/pre-sell/sell movies. As usual, I will be with South Africa's delegation to the market. Of course, I will have my fellow Haitians filmmakers with me. 

Be sure to stop by Room 316 (SOUTH AFRICAN INDIES) and say hello!