Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters
2022
Completed
BFI Doc Society Fund
Director
Eddie Hutton Mills
Director
Leah Gordon
Producer
Natasha Dack-Ojumu
Development support
Production support
Film Details
Format: Feature length film
Doc Society Involvement
Docsoc helped with Development
Docsoc helped with Production
A street carnival in Haiti reveals many unwritten histories of the country’s past. A cinematic representation of director Leah Gordon’s photographic and oral history book ‘Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti’, this visually arresting film is set in the present but also tells the rich story of Haiti’s past, as we follow a number of carnival performers in the lead up to and during the Jacmel Mardi Gras.
Subjects
Art & Culture
