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Filmmaker · Haiti

Elsie Haas

Elsie Haas was born in Port-au-Prince and grew up in Africa and Europe; she was sent to Paris at the age of twelve. A painter, visual artist and director, she acted in 1979 in a film by Med Hondo, and the filmmaker Safi Faye devoted a documentary to her in 1985. She founded a production association committed to showing peoples and their cultures without prejudice, and made about ten documentaries in Europe, Africa and Haiti. In 2012 she was editor-in-chief of Haïti-Tribune.

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