Géthro Auguste directs the children. (Photo: Jocelyne Clarke)
Over the last few months, Martin Duckworth and I have been shooting the rehearsals and recording sessions for a song for the orphans in Haiti, much more numerous since the January earthquake. The recording of the song is an initiative by Géthro Auguste, the head of a community cultural organization called Culture X in Montreal North, a neighborhood known as ‘underprivileged.’ It is home to the largest concentration of Haitians in Montreal, as well as immigrants from Latin America and North Africa – in addition to the Caucasian population. And the song: first, there will be a single, later a video clip. We are finding the whole experience very touching and inspiring, and I am thinking perhaps we could make a fifteen-minute film in addition to the music video. But where would we show the short film ? ( There is a link between these shoots and one of my film projects, more about that another time.)
Myself and DOP Martin Duckworth filming Géthro Auguste.
Thanks to Jocelyne Clarke (photos) and Jessica Berglund (blog assistance).
