Lift Up

Lift Up - Plot Summary

Lift Up is a documentary film by Philip Knowlton and Huguens Jean - Produced by Kylti and The Molecule.

This documentary follows two young brothers, Clifford Muse and Huguens Jean, as they return to Haiti, the country of their birth. They have returned home to pay their final respects and fulfill a promise to their grandfather, Andre Torchon, who passed away shortly after the quake.

The stories they tell in this documentary assign faces and souls among their fellow countrymen and before the world to the 200,000 dead as a result of the earthquake.

Clifford and Huguens bring with them a kite to memorialize and lift up the memory of their grandfather. Their memorial kite was flown at the 44th Annual Smithsonian Kite Festival in Washington, D.C. in March 2010.

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