Festi Cine Jakmel, a new idea in the horizon

Speaking of the movie Jen Manman, there is word of a new Jacmel Film Festival called FestiCine Jakmel.

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Updated December 2, 2012 3:48 PM

This news just been posted on our message board. It was posted by Fritz G. Barthelemy, the producer of Jen Manmam.

Read all about it here: Festicine Jakmel

It was posted in Kreyol so here is the English version in brief:

FestiCine Jakmel is a new project based on a contract signed between KATU PRODUCTIONS and COMPLEX CULTUREL CONCORDE.

FestiCine Jakmel will take place in Jacmel Haiti from December 1 2008 to January 1 2009

I have a question:

Is this different from the Jakmel Film Festival, can the city of Jacmel handle two film festivals, or is this an initiative from a group of people who think they can do better instead of teaming up to build something larger than life?

Why do I dare say something like that?

The Sundance Film Festival began in Salt Lake City Utah in 1978 as the Utah / US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah.

Eventually, in 1985, Management of the festival was taken over by the Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization.

It would be nice if there was one destination, once a year, for years to come, where Haitian actors, and filmmakers, and fans can go to and chit chat!

Haiti's Cinema version of Saut D'eau or Champs de Mars!

Hmmmm!