haitian movies

Here is a picture posted about a film at De Luxe Auto Cine in Haiti

Cinema in Haiti is plagued by lack of technical and weak artistic preparations. Actors, artists and technicians learn on job and they are far busier in solving technical problems. They barely deal with the problems on the creative side. The state is devoid of concrete legislation on cinema and even the state administration has never shown any interesting in promoting filmmaking in the nation.

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Here is a picture of Ciné Théatre - Duvalier Ville during the years 1965 - 1970

Cinema in Haiti entered almost simultaneously as in the rest of the world. Lumiere cinema's representative Joseph Filippi was the first to make the first ever public screening in Haiti during his visit to the island nation on 14 December, 1899. On next day, the 15th of December, Filippi a fire in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince. The Library of Congress has several films that were created during the US occupation era of 1915 to 1934. These films depicted the US Marines and the official ceremonies of the US military. Apart from these, the Library of Congress as well as Pathé-Ciné Library have a collection of some early films showing Haitian social life, agriculture and health care.

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The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 Haitian film directed by Wes Craven. This horror flick was inspired by Voodoo rituals of Haiti. The film is about a Boston based man, Dennis Alan, who was sent to Haiti by a pharmaceutical firm to find the drug that was used by Voodoo practitioners to make their victims look dead and the victims were buried and later resurrected. Alan did find the drug but fell victim of the Voodoo rituals and later fought back evil Voodoo leader with help of his protective totem, the jaguar spirit, which he obtained in Amazon.

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Raoul Peck began working with short films and socio-political documentaries; then worked on feature films. He made his first Haitian movie such as L'Homme sur les quais in 1993; The Man by the Shore.

Raoul Peck really made his mark after the movie Lumumba, his 2000 feature film about Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba.

Presently, he travels regularly between Voorhees Township, Camden County, New Jersey, USA, Paris, France, and Port-à-Piment, Haiti.

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Born November 26, 1966 in Haiti, Garcelle Beauvais is an accomplished artist. She is aa actress, singer, and former fashion model. She became popular in the Jamie Foxx Show, which ran from 1996 to 2001,
Her parents, Marie-Claire Beauvais and Axel Jean Pierre. She has six elder siblings. The family first moved to Massachusetts and later to Miami. Garcelle Beauvais was married to producer Daniel Saunders. However this did not last too long. Her son, Oliver, was born in 1991. She later married Mike Nilon on May 12, 2001 and together, they have twin sons, Jax Joseph and Jaid Thomas,
Garcelle Beauvais divorced Mike Nilon whic was finalized on April 1, 2011

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Here is a picture of the Haitian Movies industry as it is working toward its international reputation. The Haitian movie producers need to make lots of efforts to improve the quality as it is now dome by non professional people. I will recommend more structure

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