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, Alain tells his grandfather, is one that is going to be critical of the latter’s view on race, class, the United States, Haiti and Haitian themselves. We hope you will bring THE FORGOTTEN OCCUPATION: JIM CROW GOES TO HAITI to WESPAC Foundation.
