The awakening of the Generation-X Haitian American is drawing us back home to Ayiti. In 2003 I had my first trip back to Ayiti since the age of three. It was for only two days to attend my father's funeral. It would not be for an other ten ...years, in 2013, that I got to truly experience my birth place. I served as a surgical nurse for DISH http://dishforhaiti.org/ , a medical mission group made up of mostly Haitian doctors and nurses fulfilling a childhood dream of helping save the lives of Haitian children.
Take a wonderful cinematic journey to Ayiti with Haitian American film maker Rachelle Salnave and experience La Belle Vie. The Good Life documents Rachelle’s journey to discover her Haitian. La Belle Vie: The Good Life is premiering at the 23rd Annual Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and also the Toronto Black Film Festival in February.
Congrats to Haitian American film makers Trif Alexius and Remoh Romeo for your win at the San Diego Black Film Festival 2015
Winner: Best Cutting Edge Film
Nominated: Best Documentary
Own #Lakay on iTunes today: http://bit.ly/14GOqAS or DVD: http://bit.ly/LKYDVD
Winner: Best Cutting Edge Film
Nominated: Best Documentary
Own #Lakay on iTunes today: http://bit.ly/14GOqAS or DVD: http://bit.ly/LKYDVD
I truly hope to visit my family in Haiti someday. I gotta travel with a local tho and give back to the small business owners as a tourist. Luckily, my father was buried in the USA but even then my mother was not welcomed to attend with my sister and I. As an adult, I went on a ancestral quest and got some closure after meeting new relatives for the first time.
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