{{Short description|Haitian filmmaker}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox person |name = Richard Sénécal |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|04|01|df=y}} |birth_place = Port-au-Prince, Haiti<ref name="a" /> |occupation = Filmmaker }}
'''Richard Sénécal''' (born 1 April 1967)<ref name="a">{{Cite web|url=https://lequotidiennews.org/richard-senecal-une-lecon-de-reussite-professionnelle/|title=Richard Senecal, une leçon de réussite professionnelle|work=Quotidien d'Haiti|date=7 August 2020|access-date=11 January 2025|language=French}}</ref> is a Haitian filmmaker.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1078451054/|title=Hollywood, Haitiwood|work=Guelph Mercury|location=Guelph, Ontario, Canada|date=July 12, 2007|access-date=June 21, 2025|page=33|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rezonodwes.com/?p=323474|title=Le cinéaste haïtien, Richard Senecal, dénonce l’illusion des élections post-Duvalier « libres, honnêtes, démocratiques… » avec des gouvernements fantoches|work=Rezo Nòdwes|date=11 November 2023|access-date=21 June 2025|language=French}}</ref> He is known for directing and producing numerous Haitian films.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ngkmAQAAIAAJ&q=richard+senecal+film|title=Media Development, Volumes 51-53|page=45|date=October 30, 2004|publisher=World Association for Christian Communication|via=Google Books}}</ref>
The ''Haitian Times'' described his film ''Barikad'' as a classic that examines Haiti's class structure.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://haitiantimes.com/2020/05/21/what-to-binge-watch-during-the-pandemic-part-1/|title=What to Binge-Watch During the Pandemic: Part 1|author=The Haitian Times|date=May 21, 2020|work=The Haitian Times|access-date=May 15, 2023}}</ref> The European Union funded an outdoor screening of his film ''Cousines'' in Haiti in 2011 for a European Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-2882-haiti-culture-europe-day-in-haiti-may-9-to-15.html|title=Haiti - Culture : «Europe Day» in Haiti - May 9 to 15|work=Haiti Libre|date=May 5, 2011|access-date=May 15, 2023}}</ref> It received two awards at the Brooklyn International Film Festival.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zj4kAQAAMAAJ&q=richard+senecal+film|title=L'année francophone 2007|date=June 30, 2007|publisher=L'Année Francophone Internationale|author=CIDEF-AFI|page=158|isbn=9782922876147 |via=Google Books|language=French}}</ref>
In 2011, ''Malpasse'' was a film planned about Haitian students in the Dominican Republic to be directed by Sénécal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-2464-haiti-culture-documentary-on-the-migratory-flow-of-the-young-haitians.html|title=Haiti - Culture : Documentary on the migratory flow of the young Haitians...|work=Haiti Libre|date=April 3, 2011|access-date=May 15, 2023}}</ref> In his 2016 book on Haiti, Paul Clammer called the film ''I Love You Anne'' one of the country's most popular "in recent years".<ref name="b">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e6AyDQAAQBAJ&dq=richard+senecal+haiti&pg=PA41|title=Haiti|first=Paul|last=Clammer|pages=41-42|date=November 1, 2016|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|isbn=9781841629230 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Filmography== *''Chère Cathereine'' (1997), co-cinematographer<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z5qmplifVDIC&dq=richard+senecal+film&pg=PA140|title=Frame by Frame III: A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994-2004|first1=Audrey T.|last1=McCluskey|first2=Audrey Thomas|last2=McCluskey|page=140|date=October 30, 2007|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253348296 |via=Google Books}}</ref> *''The New Adventures''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5YFlDwAAQBAJ&dq=richard+senecal+film&pg=PT58|title=Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Words from Beyond the Grave|first=Jean Sénat|last=Fleury|page=58|date=July 11, 2018|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=9781984538918 |via=Google Books}}</ref> *''Barikad'' (2002)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hrXIqY6oMawC&dq=richard+senecal+film&pg=PA201|title=Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema|first=Sheila J.|last=Petty|page=201|date=January 8, 2008|publisher=Wayne State University Press|isbn=978-0814339909 |via=Google Books}}</ref> *''I Love You Anne'' (2002),<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JwbkAAAAMAAJ&q=richard+senecal+film|title=Bam Rose Cinemas|magazine=The New Yorker|page=22|volume=80|issue=11-19|date=October 30, 2004|publisher=F-R Publishing Corporation|via=Google Books}}</ref> starring comedian Tonton Bicha<ref name="b" /> *''Cousins'' (2006)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/193271510/|title=Despite hardship, the cameras keep rolling in Haiti|work=Los Angeles Times|location=Los Angeles, California|date=July 9, 2007|access-date=June 21, 2025|page=42|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}</ref> *''We Love You Anne'' (2013) *''Gossip Phone'' (Telefòn Jouda) (2017), television series *''Birth of a Diaspora'' (Naissance d'une diaspora) (2019), a documentary about Haitian refugees in Chile
==See also== *Cinema of Haiti *Culture of Haiti
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