Screening with short film Papa Machete.
A documentary about those separated from their families and returned to Haiti after completing jail time for often minor offenses, deportation pursuant to US anti-terror laws. Some deportees had been in America for decades and had no memory or knowledge of how to deal with life in this sorely troubled nation.
Papa Machete
Director: Jonathan David Kane
2014 | Haiti | 8 min | Midwest Premiere
200 years ago, the slaves of Haiti defeated Napoleon's armies with the very tool they used to work the land: the machete. Papa Machete explores the esoteric martial art that evolved from this victory through the life and practice of 'Professor' Alfred Avril, a poor, aging farmer who is one of the art's few remaining masters.