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The Fight for Haiti

The Fight for Haiti is a feature-length documentary film that tells the story of Haitian civil society groups fighting to end corruption and impunity in Haiti. Corrupt politicians and oligarchs used gangs to destroy the movement. Countless leaders were killed and forced into exile.
The film gives frontline movement leaders a chance to share their stories with Haitian society and international audiences alike.

  • Etant Dupain
    Director
  • Etant Dupain
    Writer
  • Manuel Mathieu
    Producer
  • Etant Dupain
    Producer
  • Manuel Mathieu
    Executive Producer
  • Etant Dupain
    Executive Producer
  • Wesley Lainé
    Executive Producer
  • Velina Charlier
    Key Cast
    "Anti-corruption activist"
  • Olrich Jean Pierre
    Key Cast
    "Lawyer, Politician"
  • Jake Johnston
    Key Cast
    "Political analyst and author"
  • Eddy Lucien
    Key Cast
    "University professor and writer"
  • Pascale Solage
    Key Cast
    "Anti-corruption activist, Feminist"
  • Stephanie Boucher
    Key Cast
    "Anti-corruption activist"
  • Oxygen David
    Key Cast
    "Politician, MOLHEGAPH"
  • Lorieuse Etienne
    Key Cast
    "Anti-corruption activist, Lavalas"
  • Gessica Geneus
    Key Cast
    "Anti corruption activist, Filmmaker"
  • Samuel Madistin Je Klere
    Key Cast
    "Lawyer, Fondasyon Je Klere"
  • Wesley Ernst Lainé
    Key Cast
    "Lawyer"
  • Ralph Francois
    Key Cast
    "Politician"
  • Pierre Esperance
    Key Cast
    "Human rights activist RNDDH"
  • Gilbert Mirambeau Jr.
    Key Cast
    "Anti-corruption activist"
  • llio Durandis
    Key Cast
    "Anti-corruption activist"
  • Manuel Mathieu
    Key Cast
    "Artist, Anti-corruption activist"
  • Etant Dupain
    Key Cast
    "Storyteller"
  • Fania Noël
    Key Cast
    "Writer and sociologist"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Batay pou Ayiti
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Social, Corruption
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 5 minutes
  • Country of Origin:
    Haiti
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Etant Dupain

Etant Dupain is a Haitian-American journalist and filmmaker. For over a decade, he has worked as a producer on documentaries and for international news media outlets including Al Jazeera, TeleSur, BBC, CNN, Netflix, PBS, and Vice. Etant founded an alternative media project in Haiti to enable citizen journalists to provide access to information in Haitian Creole for and about internally displaced people, aid accountability, and politics.
His award-winning documentary film Madan Sara was inspired by the strength of his mother and the woman known as Madan Sara who makes Haiti’s economy run. The Fight for Haiti is his second feature-length documentary.

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Director Statement

In 2018 a seemingly innocuous tweet swiftly took the country of Haiti by storm: kot kòb PetroCaribe a? Where is the PetroCaribe money? Inquiring about billions of dollars in missing development funds, the question ignited a movement unlike any the nation had seen in decades. It became the rallying cry for a people infuriated by rapidly deteriorating living conditions, years of broken promises, and the endemic corruption and impunity of the local and international elite.

In the face of targeted government repression and devastating state-sanctioned gang violence, the young activists leading the fight are not backing down. As the situation in Haiti evolves at a dramatic pace, we capture the defiant and unwavering energy of the next generation of Hatians fighting to build a better future.