Surprise at Tribeca Festival: Best Film on Haiti Ever

Jim Luce (HuffHo)

Sitting through the world premiere of When the Drum is Beating at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, I thought to myself, at last: the definitive movie on the real Haiti. The red carpet was far from the abject poverty that is much of Haiti, but the quiet dignity and strength of its people was reflected in the faces of -- in fact, shone from -- the many Haitians attending.


(Producers Daniel Morel, Jane Regan with Director Whitney Dow and Producer Jen Latham
at the World Premiere of When The Drum Is Beating at Tribeca. Photo: Tracy Ketcher.)


I first arrived in Haiti over Christmas vacation in 2001. I was working on Wall Street and wanted to save the world. I was extraordinarily apprehensive and wrote about my first trip. Ten years later, after having built orphanages in Gonaives and Jacmel, and having almost been killed by a mob there along the way, the earthquake struck and I just wanted to give up.

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when it's shown next year on PBS.

Really looking forward to seeing this. It looks tremendous.

Thanks.

Rec.

But will be looking for it. :)

Maybe they've decided they are real music lovers, since they have Martelly in the bag.

Pretty damned sneaky.

It's surprising more wasn't publicised about his connects to Duvalier. Papa Doc was a real fave with Washington, although he murdered Haitians freely.