Filmmakers and Producers

Rachèle Magloire (co-director/producer) was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in Montreal, Quebec, where she graduated in Communications from Université du Québec à Montréal. She returned to Haiti, where she worked as a reporter for Télé Haiti and wrote for Haïti en Marche, a weekly published in Miami. She worked as chief editor and news director for Haiti National Television, as a writer for the Montreal dailies La Presse and Le Devoir as well as Le Point, a Radio Canada TV magazine. Since 1995, she has directed documentaries for Productions Fanal, an audiovisual production company she founded with director of photography and director Carl Lafontant. Additionally, she is involved with Sinema Anba Zetwal/ Cinema Under the Stars, a dynamic audiovisual mobile structure that screens movies and social messages to large audiences all over the country. In 2011, Vues D’Afrique, a Montreal-based film festival, awarded Rachèle and her sister Laurence Magloire, the CIRTEF Prize for services rendered to humanity.