Five-time Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola has joined Freda — the Haitian Oscar entry marking the narrative feature debut of actor, singer and documentarian Gessica Généus — as an executive producer.

The Haitian film ‘Freda’ is hoping to be a serious contender in the Academy Awards’ International Feature Film category. Among its backers is five-time Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola. Courtesy of ...

Gessica Généus discusses Freda, the first movie by a female Haitian director to be nominated for an award at Cannes. Director Gessica Geneus attends the Freda photocall during the 74th annual Cannes ...

When your homeland slides into chaos do you stay or do you flee? That is the dilemma facing the title character in Gessica Geneus’ Creole-language debut feature Freda. The story of a young woman’s ...

The Haitian actor and film-maker kept her cameras rolling through the deadly upheavals of 2019. Now she’s starting on a new film, and little has improved – but that’s why she is determined to carry on ...

The auspicious feature debut of writer-director Gessica Geneus is Haiti’s entry in the Best International Feature Academy Award category. Personal and political life in Haiti are brought sharply into ...

The making of Freda, the narrative feature debut of actor, singer and documentarian Gessica Généus, shot between lockdowns in the endlessly troubled streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was “like a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Creole-language film centers on the title character, who lives with her family in a poor yet vibrant neighborhood of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Personal and political life in Haiti are brought sharply into focus in “Freda,” a powerful and resolutely unsentimental drama ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Personal and political life in Haiti are brought sharply into focus in “Freda,” a powerful and resolutely unsentimental drama ...