Arlette Pacquit


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Arlette Pacquit writes and directs films on Caribbean culture and colonial wounds. Formerly a journalist for the production company ICV and the television channel ATV (Antilles Télévision), Pacquit has had a highly diversified career. She has worked on the conception and presentation of political, economic, and cultural programs, as well as serving as a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities at the Université des Antilles in Martinique. Between 2005 and 2008, she collaborated with Aimé Césaire on various documentary projects. In 2007, Pacquit participated in the filming of Maskouloupété, a fictional film highlighting the work of social workers at a drug rehabilitation center in Fort-de-France. In the same year, she wrote and co-directed the documentary Bèlèkwazé, exploring the sacred aspects of the bèlè dance, a tradition inherited from slavery. Her feature film Sons and Daughters of Vietnam (2015), depicting the transmission of trauma from the Indochina War to the Martinican-Vietnamese generations, has been selected and awarded multiple times at festivals. Always seeking keys to understand the world, she presents in 2021 Monchoachi, An Untamed Wor(l)d), focusing on a poet and thinker of Creole language.

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