Love Me Haiti (2014 film)

Love Me Haiti
Love Me Haiti poster
Directed by	Hugues Gentillon
Produced by	Hugues Gentillon
Written by	Hugues Gentillon Alexander Stuart Joyce Mccauley-Benner Joe Vetromile
Story by	Hugues Gentillon
Starring	Aurelia Khazan Pierre-Louis Dieufaite Deoud Gentillon François Meknes Jean-Mary Volney
Music by	Johan Allerfeldt
Cinematography	Brian C. Miller Richard
Edited by	George Valdieu
Production company	Yugy Pictures Entertainment
Distributed by	Gonella Productions
Country	USA, Haiti, Poland, Sweden
Language	Haitian, French, English, Latin

Love Me Haiti is a 2014 fictional short film directed by Hugues Gentillon. Love Me Haiti co-stars Aurelia Khazan, Pierre-Louis Dieufaite, Deoud Gentillon, and François Meknes. The script was written by Gentillon, Alexander Stuart, Joyce Mccauley-Benner, and Joe Vetromile. Love Me Haiti was recorded in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The film won the 2014 Haiti's Oscar for best short film. Love Me Haiti also won Best Interpretation for the Dikalo Peace Award with actress Aurelia Khazan for bringing the character Marie Forstner to life. The young actress collected the prize at the prestigious Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes, France. The award was co-presented by Nord-Sud Développement and UNESCO.

Love Me Haiti is Gentillon's Master of Fine Art thesis at the Academy of Art University (AAU), located in San Francisco, California, USA. The film has two versions: a 14-minute thesis version submitted to AAU School of Motion Pictures and Television in late 2013 and a 9-minute theatrical version completed in November 2014.

In so few minutes, Love Me Haiti mirrors 21st century geo-political corruption at its best. The film does it suspensefully by presenting the life of a couple: two doctors who naively think humanitarian medicine is about treating those in needs, having divine faith and hoping for a cure but soon find themselves fighting something beyond belief - a criminal injustice system in a decaying world.

In simple words, the film twistfully illustrates how life is a bitch.

In January 2015, after Gentillon won the Interstudent contest, some Polish news media, lost-in-translation, mistakenly reported that he produced Love Me Haiti while he was a graduate student at the Strzemiński Academy of Art Łódź (ASP Łódź). The truth is Gentillon hired actors and crew members and rented filmmaking equipment from ASP Łódź and from the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź (PWSFTviT). He was further assisted by staff of the Promotion Office at the Medical University of Łódź, the Film Commission of Łódź, the Mayor Office of Łódź, to recruit extras and to find locations to produce other AAU films, among which are The Door (2013), Agro Production (2012), and Lakay (2011).