My film powerpoint on Haiti's history and cinema.

1. Cinema of Haiti

2. The History of Haiti
● Haiti is the first Black Republic and the second independent country in the Western
Hemisphere.
● Fought for its independence in the 1779 Battle of Savannah
● The United States failed to recognize Haiti as an independent country until 1862
because they feared that they would rebel against their slave economy.

3. Capital(s)
Port-au-Prince

4. Area and Size
The area of Haiti is 10,714 miles
squared

5. Population
The population reported in 2016
is 10.45 million residents

6. Religions
● The religions in Haiti are:
- Roman Catholic
- Baptist
- Pentecostal
- Other
- Voodoo
● "One common saying is that Haitians are 70 percent Catholic, 30 percent Protestant,
and 100 percent voodoo," said Lynne Warberg, a photographer who has documented
Haitian voodoo for over a decade.

7. Ethnic Groups
● Africans
● Polish
● Jewish
● Italian
● Chinese
● Indian
● French
● Spanish
● German

8. Languages
Languages in Haiti include
Haitian Creole and French

9. Unemployment
● As per Trading Economics, “the unemployment rate measures the number of people
actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.”
● Haiti’s Unemployment Rate is put under:
- Historical data
- Statistics
- Economics
● In 2008 unemployment was at 15.87 percent while in 2016 it went down to 13.19
percent

10. Poverty and Wealth
● As per World Bank in 2017, “According to the latest household survey, more than 6
million out of 10.4 million (59%) Haitians live under the national poverty line of
$2.41 per day and over 2.5 million (24%) live under the national extreme poverty line
of $1.23 per day.”
● The richest 1% of Haitians own the same wealth as 45 percent of the poorest
population.

11. GDP
As of 2014 Haiti has a GDP per
capita of $846

12. Economy
● Haiti’s GDP growth rose to 5.5% in 2011 as the Haitian economy began recovering
from the devastating January 2010 earthquake that destroyed much of its capital city,
Port-au-Prince, and neighboring areas.
● Growth slowed to below 2% in 2015 and 2016 as political uncertainty, drought
conditions, decreasing foreign aid, and the depreciation of the national currency took
a toll on investment and economic growth.
● Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, made landfall in
Haiti on 4 October 2016, with 140 mile-per-hour winds, creating a new humanitarian
emergency.
● An estimated 2.1 million people were affected by the category 4 storm, which caused
extensive damage to crops, houses, livestock, and infrastructure across Haiti’s
southern peninsula.

13. Industries
● Agriculture
● Assembly of Imported Parts
● Cement
● Food Processing
● Forestry
● Mining
● Textiles
● Tourism

14. Key Social Forces and Events
● 1804 - Independence
● 1956 - Voodoo physician Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier seizes power in military
coup and is elected president a year later.
● 1990 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected president in Haiti’s first free poll
● 2003 - Voodoo is recognized as a religion
● 2010 - Up to 300,000 people are killed when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits the
capital Port-au-Prince and its wider region - the worst in Haiti in 200 years.
● 2010 - Cholera outbreak claims some 3,500 lives and triggers violent protests.

15. National Disasters
● Since Haiti is in a tropical climate it is subject to many natural disasters such as
hurricanes and earthquakes. The most devastating ones include:
- May 2004: Extensive flooding
- September 2004: Hurricane Jeanne
- August, September 2004: Four storms hit Haiti (Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike)
- January 2010: 7.0 magnitude earthquake
- October 2010: Cholera outbreak

16. Film Industry Overview and History
● Haiti’s film industry unlike most movie industries is still making its way
throughout the world
● There are plenty Haitian films on Netflix or Amazon, which mostly consist of
documentaries.
- Haiti still has the opportunity to produce more widespread films
● Social media makes Haitian films accessible to all ages
- Facebook, Twitter and other websites like MovieLakay allow people to explore
new films
● There are many screenwriters and filmmakers who express their want to continue
producing more films but homegrown movies are still making their way to display

17. Important Genres of Haiti
● Politics
● Military
● Love
● Voodoo

18. Three Notable Films
● Haitian Corner (1987)
● The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
● Lumumba (2000)

19. Three Notable Film Directors
● Raoul Peck
● Jean-Claude La Marre
● Jimmy Jean-Louis

20. Three Notable Actors
● Garcelle Beauvais
● Mona Scott-Young
● Jimmy Jean-Louis

21. Sources
● World Data religious affiliation pie chart, Haiti. (2016, February 01). Retrieved April 05, 2018, from
https://www.gettyimages.fr/detail/photo-dactualité/world-data-religious-affiliation-pie-chart-haiti-photo-dactualité/641469468#/
world-data-religious-affiliation-pie-chart-haiti-picture-id641469468
● Guynup, S. (2004, July 07). Haiti: Possessed by Voodoo. Retrieved April 05, 2018, from
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/200407/0707_040707_tvtaboovoodoo.html
● Haiti: A brief history of a complex nation. (2016, March 22). Retrieved April 05, 2018, from
http://haitianstudies.ku.edu/haiti-history
● Omondi, S. (2017, November 28). What Is the Ethnic Composition of the Haitian Population? Retrieved April 05, 2018, from
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-ethnic-composition-of-the-haitian-population.html
● Flintoff, C. (2009, June 14). In Haiti, A Low-Wage Job Is Better Than None. Retrieved April 05, 2018, from
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104403034
● 5 Reasons For Remaining Hopeful About Haiti's Movie Industry. (2016, February 27). Retrieved April 05, 2018, from
http://kreyolicious.com/haiti-movie-industry/22044

22. Fun Facts and Info
● The United States is Haiti’s biggest trade partner.
● Haiti has the most mountains in the Caribbean
● From 1697-1802, Haiti was responsible for 40 percent of the sugar consumed in the
entire world
- 123 million pounds in 1788 alone.
● Haiti was also responsible for 60 percent of coffee from the 17th and 18th centuries
● Most of Haiti’s current citizens are descendants of Africans shipped to the Caribbean
to work as enslaved laborers in earlier centuries. Descendants of African slaves make
up 95 percent of Haiti’s population.

23. Plagiarism Checklist
1) ( * ) I have not handed in this assignment for any other class.
2) ( * ) If I reused any information from other papers I have written for other classes, I clearly explain that in the paper.
3) ( * ) If I used any passages word for word, I put quotations around those words, or used indentation and citation within the text.
4) ( * ) I have not padded the bibliography. I have used all sources cited in the bibliography in the text of the paper.
5) ( * ) I have cited in the bibliography only the pages I personally read.
6) ( * ) I have used direct quotations only in cases where it could not be stated in another way. I cited the source within the paper and in the bibliography.
7) ( * ) I did not so over-use direct quotations that the paper lacks interpretation or originality.
8) ( * ) I checked yes on steps 1-7 and therefore have been fully transparent about the research and ideas used in my paper.
Name: Petruce Jean-Charles Date: 4/5/2018

24. Fin