"Freda" earned a special mention at the Cannes Film Festival in July. Film still from SaNoSi Productions.

Academy-Award winning director Francis Ford Coppola is supporting Haitian filmmaker Gessica Geneus’ new film, “Freda,” in a bid for an Oscar.

Deadline Hollywood reported last week that Coppola will be an executive producer on the film, which will be submitted to the Academy Awards as the International Feature submission for Haiti.

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Larisa is a reporter for The Haitian Times covering politics, elections and education primarily. A graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, she has interned at CNBC and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. She is also a recipient of a 2021 DBEI Fellowship by Investigative Reporters & Editors. Larisa can be reached by email at larisa@haitiantimes.com or on Twitter @larisakarr.