The Festival

  The Top Kreyol Film Festival at Jacksonville was founded to celebrate the Haitian international cinema, to recognize and support new filmmakers, and to enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art among a broad and diverse and passionate filmgoing audience that will number over 50,000 this year.

  Top Kreyol Film Festival at Jacksonville presents one day that includes premieres of new films from an international roster of established and emerging directors; major retrospectives and high profile events. TKFAJ is one of those rare events whose stature will be matched by its popularity, it'll welcome this year an aggregate audience of more than 50.000, filmmakers and industry leaders from everywhere, age, economic and ethnic group.

  In addition, the Top Kreyol Film Festival at Jacksonville offers filmgoers a rare opportunity to meet some filmakers. Directors, Screenwriters and Cinematographers eager to share their work will provide an exclusive inside look at the industry during their film presentation.

Come entertain yourself, be there! From Haillywood, Jacksonville to Haiti.

Our Goals

-Celebrate the haitian's art of filmmaking and the contribution of filmmakers by hosting an international film festival and developing year-long programs for the economic, educational and cultural benefit of the haitian community.

-Promote the Haitian cinema in the USA

-Discover and encourage new aptuitude

-Build bridge between USA and Haiti

-Help everybody understand the complexity and richness of the Haitian reality

-Present the Haitian creativities to another cultural scene

-Promote author’s films and Haitian cinema

-Give all Haitian living in Jacksonville the opportunity to discover an active cinema

-Entertain the Haitian community living outside Haiti

-Provide a technical Haitian cinema to the world

-Fight against the AIDS, STDs & Drugs

The Top Kreyol Film Festival at Jacksonville included the following sections: Fiction and Short Films

Participating countries

The films in the 1rst edition of the Top Kreyol Film Festival at Jacksonville will come mainly from: Haiti, Canada, United States and France.