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film were pirated in a festival screening room, and the patchy bootleg was sold on a Vimeo VOD channel by an underground television company. A number of websites quickly followed with unofficially selling the aesthetic poster of the Film. The new company Yugy
Pictures Entertainment soon found itself battling a heavy load of pirates with DCMA copyright claims to stop and prevent further illegal transmission and diffusion of Love Me Haiti. A number of YouTube and Vimeo channels were hit. In June 2014, the French distribution company Gonella Productions non-exclusively acquired the thesis version of the film and sold it to cable/satellite TV and VOD company Shorts TV in Europe. A branch of this full-time short film channel company is known as ShortsHD, launched by DirecTV in the USA. An anonymous source reported that HD1/TF1 offered to be next in the pay-TV queue. However, neither Yugy Pictures Entertainment announced such screening on its websites, and nor Gonella Productions confirmed the existence of such a deal.
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A one-minute promo teaser trailer was published online, and a two-minute extended trailer was secretly screened on-site at film events, such as
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To piece this enigmatic film production puzzle together, the ideas which gave birth to Love Me Haiti were locked in
Gentillon's mind until summer 2007. He conceived the film at the New York Film Academy (NYFA), where he studies acting, then assembled it at AAU, and released it seven years later. At
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as the collateral supervisor. As a result, Gentillon recruited a team of screenwriters and interviewed Dr. Alix
Charles again. The story that he originally adapted was subsequently re-written a number of times, as if it was a film development in the real Hollywood collaborative world. Besides
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later became the subject of two documentary films, he postulated that everything about cinéma vérité is false: once reality passes through the lens of a camera it is no longer authentic. In other words, there is no such a thing as true documentary. Love Me Haiti is rather a faux cinéma vérité
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