
Haiti’s Human Rights Film Festival debuted at the arts center FOKAL in Port-au-Prince, and was held from December 10th to December 13th.
Among the film works being screened is “Déportés”, a docu-film-in-progress, being directed by Rachel Magloire, one of Haiti’s very few female directors, that explores the plight of children, teenagers, and former residents of the United States and Canada.
Also screened was Justice, a documentary tribute about the life of Jacques Roche, a Haitian journalist who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered at the height of the kidnapping epidemic in Haiti in the summer of 2005.