When the drum is beating - July 2010
New York based filmmaker Whitney Dow hired me on July, 2010 as field producer to work on the tail end of his documentary film When the drum is beating. We filmed primarily in Cap Haitian in the northern part of Haiti as Septentrional the band featured in his film is based in that city. This film was a long endeavor for Whitney who spent a good 4 years on that project. 

Black in Latin America - June 2010
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates featured Haiti in his new series Black in Latin America. I serviced an english crew from Wall to Wall Productions in London. On that production I paved the way for easy filming from Port au Prince to Cap Haitian over a period of 21 days. Mr.Henry Louis Gates the star of the show was pure joy to work for! 

Battle for Haiti - April-May, 2010
British filmmaker Dan Reed best known for his HBO film The Mumbai attacks! did a piece last year on escaped convicts from Haiti's National Penitentiary on the day of the earthquake on january 12th, 2010. The film looks at the larger picture of the insecurity issue and its threatening challenge to Haiti's nascent democracy. I field produced this piece over a period of two months.

The film aired on PBS's Frontline

Surviving Haiti - February 2010
British producer Andrew Carter and his co-producer Elena Cosentino contacted me to collaborate on their BBC documentary film in the aftermath of Haiti's deadly January 12th, 2010 earthquake. At the time it was a very difficult project to field produced as Port au Prince the capital city of haiti had been completely leveled by 7.0 earthquake. On this piece we focused on some key survivors who had been filmed by various networks being rescued underneath concrete rubble. 

Moloch Tropical - December 2008 - March 2009
Acclaimed Haitian film director  Raoul Peck hired me to field produce at the pre-production stage of his feature film Moloch Tropical in December of 2008. This project was a logistical challenge as the entire film had to be shot inside the Citadelle, a 19th century fortress perched up on a steep hill above the town of Milot in the northern part of Haiti. A french crew had to be lodged inside this cold and damp fortress. Food had to be trekked up the hill, transportation had to be arranged with porters, communication and other logistical nightmares had to be worked out on a very tight budget!
 My contribution to this project ended on March of 2009 just before principal filming.

The Serpent and the Rainbow -  June 1987
American film director Wes Craven best known for his film Nightmare on Elm Street came down to Haiti shortly after "Baby doc" Duvalier's departure to film an adaptation of Dr. Wade Davis's book The serpent and the Rainbow. I was hired by his field producer Doug Claybourne as a liaison person. Though the story was a Haitian one it proved to be a very difficult choice to film in Haiti. In the end only two weeks of filming were done in Haiti and the rest of the production was done next door in the Dominican republic where Haiti was re-created by a brillant production designer. As a side note, it is on that production that I met my colleague and friend Dominican filmmaker Jaime Pina.

Cooking in the danger zone -   February 2007
British food critic Stephen Gates came to Haiti for an episode of his popular BBC series Cooking in the danger zone. I field produced for them not only in difficult places like Cite Soleil but also in the center of the country in the Artibonite valley.