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词条 Patricia Benoit (director)
释义

  1. Biography

  2. Career

  3. References

  4. External links

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}}Patricia Benoit (born Haiti) is an Haitian-American socialist and filmmaker who predominantly works in Hollywood.[1] In 2012, she was critically acclaimed for her directorial venture on Stones in the Sun which was later screened at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival where she won "Best New Narrative Director".[2][3][4]

Biography

Patricia Benoit was born in Haiti and her family was forced into exile under the Duvalier dictatorship and moved to France before moving to the US. She grew and raised up in Queens, New York.[5]

Career

In the 1990s, she became a filmmaker in New York. She worked with an Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat and Jonathan Demme, on projects on Haitian art and documentaries about Haïti.[6] Patricia Benoit directed a short film titled Fern's Heart of Darkness which appeared as one of the ten such short stories combined to produce a television film Subway Stories in 1997. Her documentary film titled Courage and Pain which portrayed about the victims of political torture in Haiti was shown at the Walter Reade Theatre in Newcastle York which was directed by her in 1996. She also directed an award winning documentary titled Tonbe/Leve which depicts the struggle for democracy in Haiti after the end of Duvalier's 30 year rule.

She rose to prominence as a well known film director where she was critically acclaimed for her directorial venture of Stones in the Sun, a film based on the lives of Haitian people was released in 2012 accumulating positive reviews from the audience.[7][8] The film Stones in the Sun received the best narrative feature film award at the Los Angeles Pan American Film Festival and also received the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Feature in 2013.[9] At the Tribeca Film Festival, Patricia Benoit herself also received the special award for best debut narrative director.[2]

Her short story "The Red Dress" was published in Edwidge Danticat's 2003 anthology The Butterfly's Way, subtitled Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States.[2][10]

References

1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.talkhouse.com/artist/patricia-benoit/|title=Patricia Benoit|work=Talkhouse|access-date=30 August 2018|language=en-US}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=Stones in the Sun - Woch Nan Soley |url=http://www.sydneylatinofilmfestival.org/stones-in-the-sun/|publisher=Sydney Latin Film Festival 2018 |accessdate=30 August 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web| url=http://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/archive/512cf2251c7d76e04600179a-stones-in-the-sun | title=Tribeca Film Festival: Stones in the Sun| publisher=tribecafilm.com | accessdate=30 August 2018}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=http://kreyolicious.com/filmmaker-patricia-benoit-on-her-film-stones-in-the-sun/4568|title=Filmmaker Patricia Benoit on Her Film Stones in the Sun - Kreyolicious.com|date=2012-05-07|work=Kreyolicious.com|access-date=30 August 2018|language=en-US}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=http://caribbeanfilm.org/patricia-benoit/|title=Patricia Benoit|date=2015-07-15|work=Caribbean Film|access-date=2018-08-30|language=en-US}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/nov/20/featuresreviews.guardianreview9 |title=Island Memories (Profile: Edwidge Danticat) |first=Maya |last=Jaggi|authorlink=Maya Jaggi |work=The Guardian |date=November 20, 2004 |accessdate=30 August 2018}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.haiti-liberte.com/archives/volume5-40/Stones%20in%20the%20Sun.asp|title=Haiti Liberte|website=www.haiti-liberte.com|access-date=30 August 2018}}
8. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2014/11/review-stones-in-the-sun-is-a-deeply-affecting-tale-of-haitian-immigrants-in-the-usa-opens-today-157009/|title=Review: ‘Stones In The Sun’ Is a Deeply Affecting Tale of Haitian Immigrants In The USA (Opens Today)|last=Martinez|first=Vanessa|date=2014-11-21|work=IndieWire|access-date=30 August 2018|language=en-US}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackwomendirectors.co/patricia-benoit/|title=Patricia Benoit|website=Black Women Directors|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-30}}
10. ^{{cite book |last1=Danticat |first1=Edwidge |title=The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HX8EAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=benoit&f=false |publisher=Soho Press|isbn=9781569477489 |accessdate=30 August 2018}}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|id=nm4451552|Patricia Benoit}}
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