Closer to the Dream

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Director Guetty Felin in Person

It’s early 2008. With the American presidential campaign gathering steam, an unrelenting roar has been mounting, resonating all the way to Paris, where African-Americanexpatriate filmmaker, Guetty Felin has been living a self-imposed exile for the last 20 years. Unable to resist the political turbulence back home, she enlists French husband, Hervé Cohen (co-director) and their two sons 15 year-old Yeelen and Joakim, 11, on a journey to bear witness to the historical grassroots movement that is uniting Americans across party and racial lines. And so, what began as a video diary of the political coming of age of their sons, would later turn into an electoral road movie across the country in the quest of rediscovering America and redefining oneself in it.

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Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and raised in New York, award-winning, independent filmmaker Guetty Felin is an 18-year veteran in the film and television industry. Before going on to directing documentaries, she worked as associate producer, producer as well as distributor on numerous award winning documentaries and fiction films for European and American television. Some of her credits include Thérèse, Biographies In Black, Telling Our Stories, and Haiti on Screen, the first film series dedicated to Haitian cinema. Her most recent film Close to the Dream is a co-production with her husband Hervé Cohen. Guetty’s next project Ayiti is a musical road movie.

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