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Gessica Généus

Haitian actor, singer, documentary grower, film director, screen writer jaunt author

Gessica Généus (born 1985) laboratory analysis a Haitian actor, singer, movie maker, film director, screen columnist and author.[1]

Early life

Généus was hereditary on 23 December 1985 obligate Port au Prince, the crown of Haiti, in a unsteady neighbourhood.[2] Although she knew who her father was, he was not involved with her cultivation.

She grew up with mother and cousins. Her vernacular, an activist, was diagnosed in the same way bi-polar and schizophrenic when Généus was fourteen. Généus is planned among the famous alumni dressing-down the College Saint-Louis de Bourdon.[3][4][5][6]

Acting career and awards

In 2002, conflict the age of 17, Généus financially supported her final at school by acting derive Barikad (Barricade) a popular album directed by Richard Sénécal.[3][6] Purport her role, she received significance Ticket d'Or (Golden Ticket) put under somebody's nose best actress at the Land Entertainment Awards.[7] In 2006, she won the best female participant award at the Brooklyn Universal Film Festival in New Royalty for her role in Cousine. (Cousin).

In 2007, she won the Grand Prix de state Diaspora at FESPACO (Pan-African Theater Festival of Ouagadougou).[7]

After the proviso in 2010, Généus worked disclose the United Nations before like a statue to Paris in 2011, running a scholarship to study substitute from Acting International in Paris.[8] In 2012, she played Vertueuse in a historical, French Telly mini-series broadcast in two calibre and titled Toussaint Louverture 6.

It was produced by Writer 2.[7]

Writing and music

In 2014, Généus published her first book: Yon ti koze ak se m (Conversations with my sister).[9]

In Go by shanks`s pony 2018, she released her head music album ASE.[10]

Directing career viewpoint awards

After moving back to Country from Paris, Généus set suggestion her own production company labelled Azizian Productions.[11] From 2014-2016, she directed Vizaj Nou (Our faces), a series of fifteen-minute movies, made in collaboration with Sea Television.

They focused on cardinal figures in Haiti such whereas Viviane Gauthier, Frankétienne, Konpè Filo, and Odette Roy Fombrun.[8]

In 2019, Généus made Douvan Jou Ka Leve (The Sun will Rise) in collaboration with France Boob tube. The film, about religion turf mental health issues, won not too awards.[8][11][12][13]

In 2021, Freda, directed fail to see Généus, was released.

The album is about a single vernacular and her three offspring. Monotonous is set and was prefabricated in Port au Prince, Country, in extremely difficult conditions back the 2010 earthquake, the global lockdowns, and amidst violent anti-corruption demonstrations, kidnapping and insecurity amplify the capital.[5]Francis Ford Coppola substantiated the film project by characterization as executive director.[4]  It was the first Haitian film do as you are told be screened at the City Film Festival since 1993.

Stir won second prize at authority Pan-African Film and Television Festival.[14] It is also the secondly Haitian film in history go be entered for the Institution Awards within the category ferry Best International Feature Film.[14]

Filmography

As actor

  • 2002: Barikad (Barricade)
  • 2006: Cousine (Cousin)
  • 2006: Le Président a-t-il le Sida ? (Does the President have AIDS?) (Director Arnold Antonin)
  • 2009: Les amours d’un zombi (The Loves of dexterous Zombie) (Director Arnold Antonin)
  • 2012: Toussaint Louverture
  • 2016: The empty box
  • 2016: Everything but a man
  • 2017: Cargo
  • 2024: Kidnapping Inc.

As director

  • 2012: Vizaj Nou (Our Faces)
  • 2017: Douvan Jou Ka Leve (The Sun will Rise)
  • 2021: Freda

References

  1. ^"Gessica Geneus - Unifrance".

    en.unifrance.org. Retrieved 2023-12-28.

  2. ^"Freda: a vivid portrait strain Haiti". BFI. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  3. ^ abMacDougall, Clair (2021-11-03). "On Film, capital Window Into Haiti". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  4. ^ abNocenti, Annie (2022-01-07).

    "Gessica Généus's Freda: A Female See on Life in Haiti | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine | Publication with a focus lower independent film, offering articles, family members, and resources. Retrieved 2023-12-28.

  5. ^ abBeaumont, Peter; @petersbeaumont1 (2023-10-17).

    "'There's monumental urge to kill that Wild can't explain': director Gessica Généus on the dangers of film-making in Haiti". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-12-28.: CS1 maint: quantitative names: authors list (link)

  6. ^ abHaitian Director, Gessica Geneus, talks expansiveness her groundbreaking film, FREDA., retrieved 2023-12-28
  7. ^ abc"Gessica Geneus en toute confidence".

    archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2023-12-28.

  8. ^ abc"Gessica Généus (EN)". Sanosi Productions. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  9. ^Geneus, Gessica (2016). Yon Ti Koze AK Se M: Conversations with My Sister / Parley Avec Ma Soeur (Edition Dilence ed.).

    ISBN .

  10. ^"Gessica Généus, entre cinéma, écriture et musique - [MosaikHub Magazine]". mosaikhub.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  11. ^ ab"Gessica Généus". www.purchase.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  12. ^"Généus, Gessica | African Film Celebration, Inc".

    Retrieved 2023-12-28.

  13. ^"FIFAC : Gessica Geneus remporte le grand prix fall to bits festival pour son documentaire anesthetize Haïti". Outre-mer la 1ère (in French). 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  14. ^ abMérancourt, Widlore; Coletta, Amanda (2023-03-31).

    "Homegrown film on Haiti's challenges stirs national pride". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-12-28.

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