Celebrating Haitian Heritage Month

In Partnership with Savor Cinema, the Broward County Film Society and LBV Films we invite you to join us on May 18 at 7:00 PM for the screening of the locally produced documentary “Dual Citizen”. The film is a personal voyage of filmmaker Rachelle Salnave and her father’s quest for their Haitian citizenship. The film won the Louies Award,  an initiative of the Miami Film Festival.

A humorous and heartfelt documentary about one father’s reluctant effort to help his daughter reclaim her Haitian citizenship – even if it means confronting a past he thought he’d left behind. Filmmaker Rachelle Salnave embarks on a deeply personal journey with her father, Edouard, to test a 2012 amendment to Haiti’s Constitution that restores the right to Haitian nationality for those who had lost it.

But the process is far from simple: Edouard, a proud New York Republican who hasn’t set foot in Haiti in more than 50 years, must become Haitian again before his daughter can—forcing him to engage with a country and a government he’s kept at arm’s length since his family’s political exile in the 1960s.

Prior to the film at 6pm – Music and samplings of Haitian cuisine. 

After the film:  Filmmaker Rachelle Salnave will discuss the making of the film.