Born in Port-au-Prince, December 31, 1961. She grew up in Quebec where she completed a bachelor’s degree in communications, before returning to Haiti in 1987 to work as a reporter at the private television station Télé Haïti, before a brief stint at the public television TNH. At the same time, she wrote for Haitian and Quebecois periodicals on Haitian news. Since 1995, she has been directing documentaries for Productions Fanal, an audiovisual production company that she founded with Carl Lafontant, cameraman and director. From January 2002 to January 2004, she worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo with Radio Okapi, a national radio network founded in collaboration between the United Nations and the Hirondelle Foundation for Freedom of Expression. In February 2004, she returned to Fanal Productions, to continue the production work but also the dissemination across the country, in the dynamic framework of Sinema Anba Zetwal of the MWEM oundation, transformed in 2014 into MobiCine, a film caravan in schools. In 2015 and 2017, Fanal Productions piloted in Haiti Sparring Partners, a tri-national (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba) program of short documentary productions by young filmmakers. As of 2017, in addition to its own productions, it co-produces documentaries directed by young filmmakers of the new generation. In 2025, Fanal associated with fastforward Haiti. Among her latest productions: 1964: Simityè Kamoken, co-produced by Productions Fanal, fastforward Haiti, Soup Joumou Films. 2013, DEPORTED, a co-direction with Chantal Regnault about the journey of Haitian residents in North America, sent back to their home country after a crime. DEPORTED has circulated in several international festivals and received awards at Vues d’Afrique in 2013, FEMI in Guadeloupe as well as Black International Cinema in Berlin in 2014. Fanal Productions, in co-production with Velvet Films 2011, production of the second shooting team, Assistance Mortelle by Raoul Peck, 2020, shooting of a scene in Raoul Peck’s latest film, Exterminate all the Brutes. 2001, Les Enfants du Coup d’État, built around the rehabilitation process of a group of women, activists or wives of activists, victims of rape during the preperiod of the military coup between 1991 and 1994, awarded the CECI Human Rights Prize at the Vues d’Afrique Festival in 2001.
