Director Biography: Pierre Michel Jean is a Haitian photographer and documentary filmmaker. Based in Port-au-Prince, Pierre Michel studied Social Communications and Legal Sciences at the Université d'État d'Haïti (UEH). He graduated from "Haïti Reporters", then from CEPEC (Centre d'Étude Photographiques et Cinématographiques).
With friends, Pierre Michel founded Kolektif 2 Dimansyon (K2D), a group of independent Haitian visual artists and journalists. For 5 years, he collaborated with the AFP news agency, and his reports were published in international media such as: Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Le Temps, etc. Since 2015, alongside his career as a photographer, Pierre Michel has been making documentary films: Shadow healers (23'), Toro La Cou (65'), Untitled, the story of a January Tuesday (24'), etc. Several festivals and exhibitions have already featured his work. In his photography as in his cinema, Pierre Michel takes a long-term look at such themes as our occupation of urban space, Haitian memory of events such as the 1937 massacre and the earthquake, and the Dominican-Haitian border as a space of margin, etc. Forgetting kills twice is the title of his second feature-length documentary, dealing with the still painful memory of the "Perejil Massacre".
