Dominican Republic and Haiti / 2016 / 76mins / Documentary, History / English, French and Spanish

As the first Dominican-Haitian documentary co-production, this film retraces the liberation legacy of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Namibia and the United States, its place of origin. These common narratives on struggles against enslavement and apartheid is told in three different languages (English, French, Spanish) in the voices of 19 interviewees.

Alanna Lockward

Alanna Lockward was a Berlin and Santo Domingo-based, Dominican-German author, independent curator and documentary filmmaker, her interests were Caribbean marronage, discursive and mystical legacies in time-based practices, critical race theory, decolonial aesthetics, Black feminism and womanist ethics. She was the founding director of Art Labour Archives, a platform centered on theory, political activism and art. Lockward was also a writer, whose titles include: a collection of essays titled Apremio: apuntes sobre el pensamiento y la creación contemporánea desde el Caribe, the short novel, Marassá y la Nada and Un Haití Dominicano: tatuajes fantasmas y narrativas bilaterales, a compilation of her investigative work on the history and current challenges between both island-nations, and many more. She had been a guest lecturer at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, the Decolonial Summer School Middelburg, the University of Warwick, Dutch Art Institute and Goldsmiths University of London and had been a panelist at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal and Duke, Columbia and Princeton Universities in the US. Alanna Lockward had been awarded by the Allianz Cultural Foundation, the Danish Arts Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers. Her first documentary, Allen Report: Retracing Transnational African Methodism received the production prize Fonprocine 2013 by the Dominican Film Commission. She passed away in January 2019, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Learn More