{"id":34166,"date":"2024-07-13T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/fifac-2024-in-french-guiana-gessica-geneus-to-chair-the-jury\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T01:45:08","slug":"fifac-2024-in-french-guiana-gessica-geneus-to-chair-the-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/fifac-2024-in-french-guiana-gessica-geneus-to-chair-the-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFAC 2024 in French Guiana: Gessica G\u00e9n\u00e9us to chair the jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span>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 G\u00e9n\u00e9us to head the jury that will award the prizes.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>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 G\u00e9n\u00e9us has been named jury president, succeeding Christiane Taubira. An emblematic figure of Haitian cinema, G\u00e9n\u00e9us 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, \u201cFreda,\u201d was selected at Cannes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At 17, G\u00e9n\u00e9us landed her first role in the feature film \u201cBarikad\u201d by director Richard S\u00e9n\u00e9cal. She later won a scholarship to study drama in Paris, where she joined Acting International de Paris and honed her craft. Through her medium, G\u00e9n\u00e9us set out to tell the story of her schizophrenic mother in her documentary \u201cDouvan jou ka leve,\u201d which won the FIFAC grand prize in 2019, the festival whose jury she will chair this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe 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,\u201d the FIFAC website says, offering a platform for often underrepresented voices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dedicated to promoting documentaries from the Amazon-Caribbean region from French Guiana, the festival was created in 2019 by P\u00f4le Image Maroni \u2013 AVM, in line with the policy goals of France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions Outre-mer and the city of Saint-Laurent du Maroni.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/celebritemag.com\/2024\/07\/13\/gessica-geneus-a-la-presidence-du-jury-du-fifac-2024-en-guyane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9 Magazine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 G\u00e9n\u00e9us 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":16956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4395,2246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}