Making a film in Haiti, as director Gessica Généus can testify, is no easy thing. When she began work at the end of 2019 on her 2021 feature, Freda, the country was engulfed in the Petrocaribe street protests, named for the vast scandal involving Venezuelan oil that saw billions of dollars vanish.
Through December 2019 and January 2020 she carried on working, at one stage filming while gunfire rang out for hours outside the nightclub where she was filming, prompting concerned calls from her actors’ families.
