Guetty Felin
Guetty Felin was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and grew up in New York. She studied at Queens College and then moved to Paris for graduate school at the Sorbonne. It was in Paris that her career as a filmmaker began with her feature-length documentary, "Hal Singer Keep The Music Going," a portrait of Oklahoma-born tenor saxophonist and father of rhythm and blues, Hal "Cornbread" Singer, living in self-imposed exile in Paris since 1965. The award-winning film also features spoken-word poet Jessica Care Moore. Guetty is the director of "Thérese," a short film which takes place on a square in Menilmontant, Paris. In 2008, Guetty co-directed with her husband, Hervé Cohen, the documentary "Closer to the Dream" about the Obama primary campaign. In June 2011, 18 months after the devastating earthquake that took the lives of 300,000 of her Haitian compatriots, she turned her lenses to her native land with the award-winning documentary "Broken Stones". "Ayiti Mon Amour," completed in 2016 and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, is the first feature-length narrative entirely shot in Haiti by a Haitian-born female director. The film has been showcased at the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival, Stockholm International Film Festival, Curaçao International Film Festival, Rotterdam, where it was nominated for The Yellow Robin Award. It was also showcased at the Joburg International Film Festival, was the opening night film of the Third Horizon Film Festival in Miami, the FICCI in Colombia, and many more. Guetty is currently working on her upcoming film, A Rooster On The Fire Escape. She shares her life between the U.S., Haiti, and France.[1]
References
- ↑ Jazid Contreras (March 2, 2017). "Get on your FICCI". The Bogota Post. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
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