THE FIGHT FOR HAITI
MEET THE TEAM
ETANT DUPAIN, DIRECTOR + EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Etant Dupain is a journalist and filmmaker. For over a decade, he has worked as a producer on documentaries and for international news media outlets including Al Jazeera, TeleSur, BBC, CNN, Netflix, PBS, and Vice. Etant founded an alternative media project in Haiti to enable citizen journalists to provide access to information in Haitian Creole for and about internally displaced people, aid accountability, and politics.
His award-winning documentary film Madan Sara was inspired by the strength of his mother and the woman known as Madan Sara who makes Haiti’s economy run. The Fight for Haiti is his second feature-length documentary.
MATENMIDISWA, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
matenmidiswa (MatɛMɪədɪəSwɒ) is a production company elevating the voices of the unheard and giving them the necessary resources to thrive. matenmidiswa is the Haitian Creole for morning, midday and night. If combined with a task, it is also an expression linked to extensive work often leading to quality and perseverance. Our mission is to serve the unheard, to offer them an A+ experience. By unheard, we mean people who are not listened to or considered, those who live at the crossroads of oppressions.
Black, Indigenous and People Of Color creatives have their place at the table and it is more than time for their existence to be recognized. matenmidiswa was created specifically to offer a For Us By Us alternative to show multifaceted realities. [More]
LUNISE CERIN, EDITOR + STORY PRODUCER
Lunise Cerin is a Haitian-American filmmaker. Born in Philadelphia and raised between both Haiti and the US. Most of her work resides on the imaginary border between the US and the Caribbean. She loves to tell stories of black people’s pursuit of self expression, liberation and love. After receiving her BS in sociology, with a minor in photography from Saint Joseph’s University, Cerin married her love of people and images by pivoting to film. In 2012 Cerin moved to Los Angeles where she began her career as a content producer at the SVOD platform Black&Sexy TV. There she worked as a series writer, producer, director and self-taught editor for 6 years.
Cerin is currently in post production for her second short film “25 Frames” which she wrote, directed and edited. In 2019 she worked as a location producer for Le Mancelinier video essay by David Hart funded by the Pew Foundation, and is currently working as Editor and Story producer for her second feature documentary film, The Fight for Haiti. Cerin is an MFA candidate in Columbia University's Screenwriting MFA program, where she was admitted with the Bridges Larson Foundation Fellowship.