Yesterday, I was answering some emails when I heard something outside my window. This is not strange since people pass by on the street all day. But for some reason I looked out the window. What did I see? A man with a video camera on a tripod. A little odd but I almost didn’t think anything of it. But then I realized something. The man was directing actors and setting up shots. I ran from my room up to the roof of the orphanage. Sure enough there were several men making a movie guerrilla-style just like the way I made my movies.
I went out and met them. The writer/director was Gary Agent who’s on his 22nd feature film. His movies play in the theaters in Haiti and he has one that screened in the States. The movie he is now shooting is called Fenelon and will wrap shooting in a week or two. One major scene now features the wall of the orphanage. The movie is about a man who murders his best friend for a winning lottery ticket. The man is then haunted by his friend’s ghost, is pursued by bandits and becomes a zombie.
I got to meet a couple of the actors Ralph Richeme and Roodly Jules as well. They invited me over to their home studio. We watched what they shot that day as well as a few trailers for several other movies in the works. Gary is very talented as are Ralph and Roodly. Roodly could be an action star in the States. He speaks English very well with only a slight accent and has a great screen presence.
They all said they’d work for me if I wanted to shoot a movie in Haiti. I took their numbers and said I might just take them up on that. You never know what’s going to happen in Haiti.
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