Independent Lens
When the Drum Is Beating
The music of Haiti's oldest and best-known band and the memories of its founder and leader, Ulric Pierre-Louis.
Unfinished Country
As a country attempts to organize for presidential elections, it endeavors to fashion a representative government out of a volatile state.
- Series
- Wide Angle
- Premiere Date
- September 6, 2005
- Length
- 60 minutes
- Funding Initiative
- Series and Special Projects
Director
Whitney Dow
Whitney Dow is an award-winning filmmaker whose directing credits include: Two Towns of Jasper, I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v Board of Education, Unfinished Country, and When the Drum Is Beating. His work has been screened and broadcast all over the world and received numerous honors including the Peabody, a Columbia DuPont, Gotham, and Beacon… Show more
- Other ITVS Films
- Two Towns of Jasper
- When the Drum Is Beating
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The Film
Battered by hurricanes, embroiled in political turmoil, overrun by armed gangs, and largely ignored by the international community, Haiti is trying, yet again, to embrace democracy. As the hemisphere's poorest country attempts to organize for presidential elections, Unfinished Country reveals life on Haiti's streets and among its power brokers as the country endeavors to fashion a representative government out of a volatile state.
