THE FORGOTTEN OCCUPATION: JIM CROW GOES TO HAITI
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THE FORGOTTEN OCCUPATION: JIM CROW GOES TO HAITI

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OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - Art of Brooklyn Film Festival | AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD - Haiti International Film Festival | BEST DOCUMENTARY - Trenton Regional Documentary Film Festival | AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD - Ann Arbor Black Film Festival Haitian History • US History • Racism • Class • Colonialism • Early Twentieth Century Violence Date of Completion: 2023 | Run Time: 103 minutes​​ | Languages: English & Creole | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director & Producer: Alain Martin | Producers: Hans Augustave | Cinematographer: Adele Pham Filmmaker Alain Martin frames the forgotten history of his country’s brutal occupation at the hands of the United States as an epistolary that finds him penning a letter to his deceased grandfather about the subject. He confesses to Brunel Martin, the grandfather in question, his ambivalence and his sense of guilt in making a film which will frame him-Brunel-as the antagonist, given that Brunel is the one that raised him. The film,

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