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5 Haitian Films To Be Showcased at African Film Festival Vues D’Afrique-Kreyolicious Cinema

Five Haitian films will be screened at this year’s edition of Vues d’Afrique, a film festival that highlights films from the African Dyaspora. Among them…

1. Kamelo: A short directed by Jean-Claude Bourjolly, a filmmaker based in Port-au-Prince.
Screening(s): May 2/2 P.M.
Director: Jean-Claude Bourjolly

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Rundown: The film covers the filmmaker’s perspective of life in Port-au-Prince in the early 1980s. According to the festival information sheet, the film also features music from singer Carole Demesmin. Some time ago, I had featured an interview with this very same filmmaker on the site. The interview can be read BY CLICKING HERE.

2. Victorieux ou Morts Mais Jamais Prisonniers [Victorious or Dead, But Never Prisoners],
Screening(s):
Director: Mario Delatour
May 1/ 10 A.M.
May 3/ 2: 15 P.M.
90 Minutes
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Rundown: A partly-animated documentary about a would-be of invasion of Haiti by three former members of Haiti’s army. Kreyolicious previously had an interview with this filmmaker as well! You can read it HERE.

3. Jimmy Goes to Hollywood
Screenings: May 2/
Director: Jimmy Jean-Louis

Rundown: A chronicle of the popularity of African cinema.

4. Histoire de la Banque en Haiti [History of Banking in Haiti]
Screening(s): April 30
Director: Frantz Voltaire

Rundown: An introspective look at Haiti’s banking system from the 1880s to contemporary times.

5. N’ap Vanse, Vap Vanse [We’re Moving Right Along]
Screening(s): April 30, 12:15 P.M.
Director: Andre Vanasse

Rundown: Lodging in Haiti.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE VUE D’AFRIQUE WEBSITE!

K St. Fort
K St. Fort
ABOUT K. St Fort K. St. Fort is the Editor and Founder of, well, Kreyolicious.com and wishes to give you a heartfelt welcome to her site. She loves to read, write, and listen to music and is fascinated by her Haitian roots, and all aspects of her culture. Speaking of music, she likes it loud, really, really loud. Like bicuspid valve raising-loud. Her other love are the movies. She was once a Top 50 finalist for a student screenwriting competition, encouraging her to continue pounding the pavement. She has completed several screenplays, with Haiti as the backdrop, one of which tackles sexual abuse in an upper middle class Haitian family, while another has child slavery as its subject. She is currently completing another script, this time a thriller, about two sisters who reunite after nearly 10 years of separation. A strong believer in using films to further educational purposes, and to raise awareness about important subjects, she has made it a point to write about social issues facing Haiti, and making them an integral part of her projects. She has interviewed such Haitian-American celebrities as Roxane Gay, Garcelle Beauvais, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Briana Roy, Karen Civil, and many, many more. And that’s her writing this whole biographical sketch. She actually thinks writing about herself in the third person is cute. MY WEBSITE Kreyolicious ™: kree-ohl-lish-uh s: Surely an adjective…the state of being young, gorgeous, fine and utterly Haitian. Kreyolicious.com™, the hub for young, upwardly mobile Haitian-Americans, is akin to a 18th Century cultural salon but with a Millennium sensibility–an inviting lair, where we can discuss literature, music, problems facing the community, and everything on the side and in-between. Kreyolicious is the premier lifestyle, culture and entertainment blog and brand of the hip, young, trend-oriented, forward thinking Haitian-American. It’s the definite hot spot to learn more about Haiti our emerging identity as a people, and explore our pride and passion about our unique and vibrant culture. Within the site’s pages, Kreyolicious.com is going to engage you, empower you, and deepen your connection to everything Haitian: the issues, the culture, our cinema, the history, our cuisine, the style, the music, the worldwide community. Make yourself at home in my cultural salon. If you’re looking to learn more about Haiti, Kreyolicious.com invites you to board this trolley on a journey–on our journey. For me too, it is a process, a non-ending cultural odyssey. If you’re already acculturated, I can certainly learn something from you. We can learn from one other, for certain. With my site, Kreyolicious.com I look forward to inspiring you, to enriching you, and to participating alongside of you, in the cultural celebration. And being utterly kreyolicious. How do you wear your kreyoliciousness? On your sleeves, like I do? Kreyoliciously Yours, Your girl K. St. Fort, Ahem, follow me elsewhere!

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