Film Synopsis

Haiti Bride follows Marie Therese who returns to Haiti two years after the earthquake to meet up with her groom Paul who goes missing during the earthquake.  She is the daughter of the Benoit family  who fled to New York after the removal of President Aristide in 2004. Having vowed never to return to their native land after their evacuation parents are livid when their daughter Marie Thérèse subsequently meets and falls in love with a Haitian man, Paul, who is visiting New York.

She wants to marry him and re-settle in Haiti; he wants to re-settle in the US. A compromise is struck and the wedding is set for Haiti, with the couple promising to return to the US after their honeymoon. Unfortunately, the wedding date is set for the afternoon of January 12th 2010 – the day & time of the earthquake. 

On her wedding day, the bride is late for the ceremony and as she enters the church compound, the church collapses on the wedding party inside. She vows to wear her bridal dress and veil every day until her groom is found – dead or alive. After weeks of scouring post-earthquake Haiti, she returns, devastated, to New York.

Her groom meanwhile has been pulled from the rubble, barely alive, and “disappeared” himself. While waiting at the altar for his bride’sarrival, he had second thoughts about the marriage as he was actually engaged to Natacha, a girl from Jacmel, just prior to his leaving for New York.

When the church collapses on him, he believes that it is God’s wrath visited upon him for his false choice. When he recovers, he journeys to Jacmel to find his real Haiti bride, hoping that she has survived the earthquake. The film is a Haitian Creole language film. (Haiti Bride is an English working title. The final title will be an appropriately Kweyol title.)