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Storyline
Through the grassroots campaign of electoral hopeful Rosa Iris, director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary reveals the depths of racial hatred and institutionalized oppression that divide Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Synopsis
In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, on the basis of anti-black racism. Fast-forward to 2013, the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents, retroactive to 1929, rendering more than 200,000 people stateless. Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary follows the grassroots campaign of a young attorney named Rosa Iris, as she challenges electoral corruption and fights to protect the right to citizenship for all people.
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Filmmaker Michèle Stephenson was born in Port au Prince, Haiti to Andrea Delgado and Edouard Stephenson. Stephenson grew up in Queens, New York and Quebec, Canada. She earned her B.A. degree in political science from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1987 and her M.A.
