Celebrate Caribbean Heritage Month!

La Belle Vie: The Good Life

Tuesday, June 16th at 11 PM on WPBT

Haitian-American filmmaker, Rachelle Salnave shares her journey to discover her Haitian roots. This film chronologically uncovers the rationale behind the social class system and how it’s affected the Haitian American migration experience. With the proliferation of political turmoil, poverty, and now an Earthquake shattered nation, this film beckons all to lay down their arms and work as one to rebuild and prosper in the name of a new and stronger Haiti.

My Fathers Land

Tuesday, June 23rd at 11 PM on WPBT

Learn the story of Papa Jah, a Haitian gardener and bush medicine man living in the Bahamas and his journey back home to reunite with his 103-year-old father before he passes, and the larger story of Haitian immigrants who are living precarious lives in both the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic.

Deported

Tuesday, June 30th at 11 PM on WPBT

A documentary about those separated from their families andreturned to Haiti after completing jail time for often minor offenses, deportation pursuant to US antiterror 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.