Jean-Jacques Louis Philippe Guerrier was a career officer and general in the Haitian Army who became President of Haïti on May 3, 1844. He died in office on April 15, 1845. A respected soldier, Guerrier had successfully commanded the southern black army during the Haitian Revolution. After Haiti became independent, he retired from active service and became a plantation owner. In May 1844, President Rivière-Hérard was removed from office by the mulatto hierarchy and replaced with the aged black general Philippe Guerrier, who assumed the presidency on May 3, 1844. Guerrier held office for only 11 months before he died on April 15, 1845.
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Jean-Jacques Louis Philippe Guerrier était officier de carrière et général dans l’armée haïtienne. Soldat respecté, Guerrier avait dirigé avec succès l’armée noire du sud durant la révolution haïtienne. Après l’indépendance d’Haïti, il prit sa retraite et devint propriétaire d’une plantation. En mai 1844, le président Rivière-Hérard fut démis de ses fonctions par la hiérarchie mulâtre et remplacé par le vieux général noir Philippe Guerrier, qui assuma la présidence le 3 mai 1844. Guerrier ne resta en poste que 11 mois avant sa mort, en exercice, le 15 avril 1845.
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Jean-Jacques Louis Philippe Guerrier se te yon ofisye, jeneral nan lame ayisyen. Yon sòlda ki te respekte, li te dirije lame a nwa sid la ak siksè nan revolisyon ayisyen an. Apre endepandans Ayiti a, li te pran retrèt li e li te vin mèt yon plantasyon. Nan mwa me 1844, Prezidan Rivière-Hérard te pedi pouvwa lè yerachi mulat la ranplase li pa general ansyen nwa a Philippe Guerrier, ki te monte sou prezidans nan 3 me 1844. Guerrier te sou pouvwa sèlman pou 11 mwa anvan l mouri, yon 15 avril 1845.
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1) www.haiti-reference.com
2) Wikipedia
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Budding documentary filmmaker Dave Fils-Aime has always had a little activist growing in him. A graduate of Yale University, Fils-Aime grew up in Martissant, Haiti and attended Saint Jean l’Evangeliste, an all-boy Catholic school. He says he and his family moved to the United States before the start of high school. “Although I was happy to finally be able to visit America,” Fils-Aime recalls, “my parents’ decision to stay in the country did not go well with me. I was saddened by the idea of having to forfeit the opportunity of attending my dream school with some of my closest friends.”

With time, the teen accepted his destiny and excelled in school and graduated as one of the top students in his high school in South Florida. Fils-Aime received a Miami Herald Silver Knight Award winner for his outstanding academic excellence and community service. His entrance into Yale provided him a platform as a budding community leader. He I served as the president of Yale’s Klib Kreyol (Haitian Cultural Organization). During a one-year leave of absence from Yale, Fils-Aime interned for Organizing for America, the successor organization of Obama for America during President Obama’s first term. He also served as a community organizer for the city of Miramar in Florida, which led to his being chosen to drive the White House Press Corps in a presidential motorcade during a visit by President Barack Obama to Miami.

Fils-Aime’s awareness about Haitian causes grew when he worked on community leader Marleine Bastien’s congressional campaign as a Volunteer Coordinator. He also wrote his senior thesis on Haiti during the early 2010s.

After turning down the opportunity to work on President Obama’s reelection campaign, Fils-Aime acccepted an offer from the United Nations Development Programme in Haiti, where he worked as a donor relations and resource mobilization consultant. While in Haiti, Fils-Aime launched a youth-driven program Basketball to Uplift the Youth (Baskètbòl pou Ankadre Lajenès).

Somehow, filmmaking emerged in this equation. Fils-Aime founded DaliReel Productions, his film company, and his fixation on the South of Haiti provided the inspiration for his first Haiti-focused production entitled, well, South of Haiti. The documentary was touted “The Best Tourism Video You’ll See All Year” by travel website Skift. It was Staff Pick by the video sharing site Vimeo and was also singled out by Canada.com as one of its “Monday Inspiration” Videos.

Dave Fils-Aime looking very pensive on a documentary set.

DaliReel Productions is your very own production company. What drew you to film and documentary filmmaking.

Well, one of my main roles as the Director of Operations of the Yale Men’s Basketball was to film the team’s games and to coordinate film exchange with other teams. I was also responsible for putting together a highlight video of the team’s best plays of the season to be played at the end of year banquet. Through this experience, I became extremely interested in filming and editing, and in ultimately using it as a medium to educate people about Haiti.

This documentary about Haiti is your very first production?

Actually, when I led the Yale International Relations Association election observation trip to Haiti, I took the initiative to film the entire experience and to use the footage to put together a documentary film titled Ayiti Leve: The Political Reconstruction of Haiti. That was my very first production. Although we have had private screenings of the film, we have not yet made it available to the public. Over the past year, I’ve been working on an updated version with my collaborator James Murphy, and we hope to make it available to the public in the coming months.

What drew you to the southern part of Haiti, and what ultimately made you feel that this documentary needed to be a reality?

It was actually through a retreat organized by some co-workers in collaboration with the tour guide company J’adore le Sud that I was able to discover the south of Haiti. It was my first time visiting the area and I was simply amazed by the region’s beauty, the breathtaking beaches, the magnificent caves, the wonderful waterfalls, and the fascinating historical sites that have stood the test of time. I felt that I had an obligation to share this experience with the world, to show a Haiti that most don’t even know exist. But I knew that I couldn’t do it on my own if I wanted the end product to be a topnotch piece. A year earlier, I had met filmmaker Alex Horner in Haiti through my good friend Jimmy Toussaint’s Haiti volunteer program. When Alex showed me some of his work, I was particularly impressed by his strong technical skills and great vision. He suggested the possibility of joining forces in the future to produce short films/documentaries on Haiti, and I expressed my strong interest in forging such a partnership. So, as soon as I returned to Port-au-Prince from the trip down south, I contacted Alex about doing a project on the region and he was immediately on board. Alex recruited Nick Mihalevich, a sound technician, to join us on the project, and a few months later they both flew down to Haiti from Minnesota to capture images and sounds over a period of 10 days.

Filmmaking can be tough territory. What are some of the things you’ve learned that you feel are must-know information for those who want to get into filmmaking.

Filmmaking is most definitely a tough territory. The most important lesson I’ve learned and that I would like to share with people interested in entering the field is that if you’re not willing to give it your all, do not even think about pursuing a project. Because even when you pour all your effort into a project, there is no guarantee that it will pan out. If I had not been fully intent on seeing the South of Haiti project become a reality, it would have remained simply a beautiful proposal on paper. I sent the project proposal for sponsorship to government ministries and a wide range of private enterprises, but we did not receive any positive feedback. Unfazed by the lack of interest in the project, Alex, Nick and I pooled our own funds together to finance the project. The lesson learned is: if you and your team are not passionate enough about a project to make sacrifices for it, the project will not become a reality.

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President Pierre Jean-Louis “Race Relations Act 1845”

President Jean-Louis Pierrot introduced this act due to a series
of revolts in the South and split between the ranks of the mulatto class and dissatisfaction from the black masses.The color factor had been a major factor in Haitian politics since the colonial days. In order to manage the situation, he introduced the Race Relation Act.
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Pierrot became president at the age of 84. He refused to live in Port-au-Prince ( Port-aux-Crimes) and designated Cap-Haitien the capital of Haiti. They referred to Port-au-Prince as “Port of Crimes”, which was the capital of Haiti, because of the assassination of Haiti’s emperor Jacques I aka Jean Jacques Dessalines, the leader of the Haitian Revolution. President Pierrot was obsessed with the idea of punishing the Dominicans for having declared their independence on February, 1844. A short war broke out between the two neighbors without a clear victor.
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Louis Michel Pierrot became president of Haiti on April 16, 1845. During the first Haitian Kingdom, Henry I promoted Pierrot to the rank of Lieutenant General in the Army and granted him the hereditary title of Prince. As President of Haïti he was intended to be a figurehead for the mulatto ruling class. After a failure in that role, he was overthrown in a coup d’etat on March 24, 1846, after attempting reforms in the government. He resigned and retired to his plantation called Camp-Louise, where he led a quiet and peaceful life until his death on February 18, 1857.
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The North-South Civil War in Haiti: Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe

In 1806, Christophe and the Haitian general Alexandre Pétion overthrew Jean Jacques Dessalines. Subsequently, a short civil war broke out between Christophe and Pétion. By February 1807, Haiti was divided between Christophe who had clear charge over the North (State of Haiti) with some of the western part of the island, and Alexander Pétion who led the South also with some of the western part of the new country (Republic of Haiti). Christophe was elected president and served in that capacity from 1807 to 1811.
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Following a power struggle with Pétion and his supporters in the South, Christophe retreated with his followers to the Plaine-du-Nord of Haiti, the stronghold of former slaves, and created a separate government there. Christophe suspected he was also at risk of assassination in the South. In 1807 he declared himself “président et généralissime des forces de terre et de mer de l’État d’Haïti'” (English: President and Generalissimo of the armies of land and sea of the State of Haïti).[13] Pétion became President of the “Republic of Haïti” in the south, where he was backed by General Jean-Pierre Boyer, a gens du couleur who controlled the southern armies.
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