JorèsPhilippe Jr.

Where I come from, and why it matters.

I'm a Haitian-American writer, director, and producer out of New York City. I came up producing and scoring independent shorts, then earned my MFA in Film Production. Now I direct.

My debut, The Hands That Beat The Drum, is a bilingual short set in the Haitian diaspora of Brooklyn — the kind of story the industry rarely makes room for. That's the whole job: bring real craft to the voices that get overlooked, and tell them in our own language. I build it all under VANYAN, LLC and the VANYAN Institute.