2023

Tito

ABOUT

An undercover, self-shot, and cerebral diary exploring the inner workings of the Haitian National Penitentiary from one inmate's perspective.

Program Short
Runtime 0:00
Language Haitian Creole

Kervens “Tito” Jimenez was born in 1989 in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Much of his youth was spent in an orphanage for boys, and at 17, Tito was arrested for an unfounded crime. He sat, unconvicted, at the Haitian National Penitentiary, for the better part of five years. Despite his imprisonment, Tito was filled with life, charisma, and hope. He dreamt of owning his own barbershop and one day moving to the United States. More than anything, he loved those whom he considered family – his brothers, his grandmother, and his daughter. Tito’s life was taken in 2015, days before his twenty-sixth birthday.

Taylor McIntosh is a Maine born, Brooklyn based filmmaker, photographer, and educator whose award winning collaborations have shown at festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Berlinale, and SXSW. He has traveled the world making films that range in subject matter; from gold miners on the coast of Alaska and prisoners incarcerated in the Haitian National Penitentiary, alternative death rituals throughout the United States and Somali refugees stranded in Nepal. Regardless of form, Taylor is most interested in exploring honest and empathetic stories about those who live on the edge of society, in a world of their own. He has taught filmmaking at the Maine Media Workshops and University of Colorado Boulder.

CREDITS

Director
Kervens Jimenez
Producer
Corbin J. Stone
Jean Roody Saint Vilien
Taylor McIntosh
Editor
Taylor McIntosh
Editor
Taylor McIntosh

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