La Source

'La Source', 2012

A documentary that follows Haiti-born Josue Lajeunesse as he works to bring bacteria-free water to his native village.

A documentary that follows Haiti-born Josue Lajeunesse as he works to bring bacteria-free water to his native village.

Director

Patrick Shen

Runtime

72 minutes

Type

Feature

Genre

Documentary

Keywords

princeton university, haiti, janitor

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La Source

Patrick Shen, 2012

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Color (High Definition)

Awards

Silverdocs Documentary Festival

Nominated

2012

React to Film Social Issue Award

Honorable Mention

Storyline

A documentary that follows Haiti-born Josue Lajeunesse as he works to bring bacteria-free water to his native village.

In La Source (pronounced lah-soos), Haiti water does not come easily. Each day, villagers of this small, rural community must choose between enduring a long, treacherous walk to retrieve clean water or drink contaminated water from a nearby river. For over 30 years, the villagers have attempted to address this problem by constructing a means of channeling the water from a natural spring in the mountains, but with limited funding and an unsupportive government their attempts to provide clean water were to no avail. Since he was a teenager, Josue Lajeunesse, along with his brother Chrismedonne have dreamt of remedying this problem for their people. In 1989, Josue moved from La Source to New Jersey where he found employment as a custodian at Princeton University. His custodial work and second job as a taxi driver, which total close to 20 hours a day, allows him to send money home to La Source so that he and Chrismedonne, a bricklayer in La Source, could properly channel the water from ...

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A documentary that follows Haiti-born Josue Lajeunesse as he works to bring bacteria-free water to his native village.

Synopsis

In La Source (pronounced lah-soos), Haiti water does not come easily. Each day, villagers of this small, rural community must choose between enduring a long, treacherous walk to retrieve clean water or drink contaminated water from a nearby river. For over 30 years, the villagers have attempted to address this problem by constructing a means of channeling the water from a natural spring in the mountains, but with limited funding and an unsupportive government their attempts to provide clean water were to no avail. Since he was a teenager, Josue Lajeunesse, along with his brother Chrismedonne have dreamt of remedying this problem for their people. In 1989, Josue moved from La Source to New Jersey where he found employment as a custodian at Princeton University. His custodial work and second job as a taxi driver, which total close to 20 hours a day, allows him to send money home to La Source so that he and Chrismedonne, a bricklayer in La Source, could properly channel the water from ...

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Cast & crew

Cast

Don Cheadle

Actor/Actress

Crew

Director

Patrick Shen

Screenwriter

Brandon Vedder

Screenwriter

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