EXCLUSIVE: GVN Releasing has picked up July 7: Who Killed the President?, a Haitian-set and produced political thriller from filmmaker Robenson Lauvince.
GVN will launch the movie in U.S. cinemas on Could 16, a number of days earlier than Haitian Flag Day on Could 18.
Impressed by true occasions, the movie interrogates the assassination of former Haitian president Jovenel Moïse. The narrative follows Shedeline, a curious school pupil, who travels to Haiti to unravel the lifetime of the president for a memoir. Her investigation plunges her into the guts of a life-changing occasion, offering her with a front-row seat to the chaos and intrigue of a bloody political firestorm. This surprising journey introduces a terrifying twist to what she thought could be an extraordinary story, leaving her with the heavy burden of answering the prodigious query hanging over an unsettled nation: Who killed the president?
Lauvince directs from a screenplay penned by Paul Henry Athis, Gary Victor, and Hollandy Desrosiers. The movie is a Clearshot Leisure manufacturing in affiliation with Aldea Studio.
“July 7: Who Killed the President? is greater than a movie; it’s a second of reality for Haiti,” Lauvince stated in a press release. “That is the primary time our story is being informed from our personal perspective, by way of the lens of a Haitian, with the depth, dignity, and complexity it deserves.” He added: “For the Haitian neighborhood, it’s a mirror and a megaphone—a mirrored image of our ache, our resilience, and our proper to demand justice. My hope is that this movie not solely reaches hearts but in addition opens eyes all over the world. Industrial success is essential, not simply to interrupt limitations, however to show that our tales have international worth and energy. It is a defining second for Haitian cinema, and I imagine the world is able to hear. July 7 is the fact of my nation.”
