FIFAC 2024 in French Guiana: Gessica Généus to chair the jury

The 6th Amazon-Caribbean International Documentary Film Festival (FIFAC) will take place Oct. 8-12, 2024, at the Camp de la Transportation in French Guiana. The organizing team chose Haitian director Gessica Généus to head the jury that will award the prizes.

For the 2024 edition, to be held Oct. 8-12 at the Camp de la Transportation in Saint-Laurent du Maroni, Haitian director and actress Gessica Généus has been named jury president, succeeding Christiane Taubira. An emblematic figure of Haitian cinema, Généus is known for her artistic and social commitment. Her filmography, marked by moving and relevant works, has earned her international recognition. In 2021, her first feature film, “Freda,” was selected at Cannes.

At 17, Généus landed her first role in the feature film “Barikad” by director Richard Sénécal. She later won a scholarship to study drama in Paris, where she joined Acting International de Paris and honed her craft. Through her medium, Généus set out to tell the story of her schizophrenic mother in her documentary “Douvan jou ka leve,” which won the FIFAC grand prize in 2019, the festival whose jury she will chair this year.

“The Amazon-Caribbean International Documentary Film Festival is an international competition of films from the Caribbean and the Amazon and a place for exchange, sharing and professional discovery, with the ambition of giving a voice to a creative and diverse industry,” the FIFAC website says, offering a platform for often underrepresented voices.

Dedicated to promoting documentaries from the Amazon-Caribbean region from French Guiana, the festival was created in 2019 by Pôle Image Maroni – AVM, in line with the policy goals of France Télévisions Outre-mer and the city of Saint-Laurent du Maroni.

Source: Célébrité Magazine