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Guetty Felin
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Guetty Felin was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, grew up in New York. She studied at Queens College then moved to Paris for grad school at the Sorbonne. It is in Paris that her career as a filmmaker began with her feature-length documentary "Hal Singer Keep The Music Going" a portrait of Oklahoma-born tenor Sax player and father of rhythm and blues Hal "Cornbread" Singer living in self-imposed exile in Paris since 1965. The award-winning film also features spoken-word poet Jessica Care Moore. Guetty is the director of "Thérese" a short film which takes place on a square of Menilmontant in Paris. In 2008, Guetty co-directed with her husband Hervé Cohen the documentary "Closer to the Dream" about the Obama primary campaign. In June 2011, 18 months after the devastating earthquake that took the lives of 300,000 of her Haitian compatriots, she turned her lenses to her native land with the award-winning documentary "Broken Stones". "Ayiti Mon Amour" completed in 2016 and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival is the first feature-length narrative entirely shot in Haiti by a Haitian-born female director. The film has been showcased at the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival, Stockholm International Film Festival, Curaçao International film Festival Rotterdam where it was nominated for The Yellow Robin Award. It was also showcased in Joburg International Film Festival, was opening night film of the Third Horizon Film Festival in Miami, the FICCI in Colombia and many more... Guetty is currently working on her upcoming film A Rooster On The Fire Escape. She shares her life between the US, Haiti and France. 
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