JETA AMATA TO SHOOT ENTIRELY A HAITI FILM

The President of the Republic encourages actors, directors and producers renowned, to shoot films in Haiti and to draw inspiration from the history thrilling of the Haitian independence

Port-au-Prince, Friday, May 17, 2013: The President of the Republic, His Excellency Mr. Michel Joseph Martelly, welcomes with enthusiasm and supports the initiative of the Nigerian filmmaker Jeta Amata to shoot entirely in Haiti a film about Toussaint Louverture, in order to show the leading role played by this hero in the struggle for the independence of the first black republic in the world.

Hope Opara The President of Eko International Film Festival and Film Director Jeta Amata at the Haiti Pavilion during the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in France 

President Martelly, in order to do a better know Haiti through the world and also the prowess of the native army and hero of the independence of Haiti, especially Toussaint Louverture, Jean Jacques Dessalines, Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe, who defeatedone of the largest armies in the world at the time, Napoleon's army, encourages all actors, directors and producers known to contribute to this goal through specific films.

Besides its singular revolutionary history as first black republic in the world, Haiti has 27,800 square kilometers of surface including 1700 km of paradise coastline, a cultural richness unequaled in the Americas, one of the most spectacular coastline of the Caribbean Sea, the famous sites such as the famous Turtle Island (the first bastion of pirates), the largest grid of fortifications of the eighteenth century, the imposing vestige of colonial plantations as well as the greatest symbol of freedom built after independence, namely the Citadelle Henri Christophe.

Furthermore, the country was the most lucrative French colony in the world with 40% of sugar production and 60% of the coffee production of the European continent, not to mention its extraordinary potential in cocoa. All this had been to Haiti the nickname "Pearl of the Antilles."

                                                   Hope Opara  and  Jeta Amata  in France 

However, it is appropriate to point out that the independence of Haiti, gained on the battlefield, at the price of a lot of lives, of blood and sacrifices, was paid thereafter. And since then, the country has never really been able to recover its splendor. Also the President has he deemed  opportune, not only to make Haiti a tourist destination, but also a special field of work for the film industry.

In this optic, the Haitian government is arranged to talk and accompany all actors and other very important personalities implicated in the film productions, in order to facilitate the realization of films able to allow people around the world to discover this fold of the universal history unrolled in this corner of the Caribbean.