11-year old Matou pretends she needs glasses in order to be "seen" by her family. She sees blurry but internally she begins to see the adult world sharper and bears witness to the natural calamities of life.
Writer/Director: Shirley Bruno
USA / Haiti, 2012, Fiction, 10 Minutes, short film, English, 35mm, Black and White.
Screened internationally at the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, Cornwall Film Festival UK, Imagenation Film Series in NYC, FESPACO in Burkina Faso, Haiti Film Fest, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Fest, awarded Juror's Choice at the Women of African Descent Film Festival.
To festival programmers: for private online full length screener please email directly at:
hello@shirleybruno (dot) com.