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Regine O. Jackson was a panelist at the Atlanta World Cup premiere of “The Tropic Sun and His Eyes”
HSA President, Regine O. Jackson, was a panelist at the Atlanta World Cup premiere of an independent feature film shot entirely in Cap Haitien, Haiti, “The Tropic Sun and His Eyes“.
The in-person event was held at the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College. The post-screening discussion and Q&A with the filmmaker, Mr. Elisee Junior St. Preux, was moderated by Dr. Edvige Jean-Francois, an award-winning, multilingual global journalist and the inaugural executive director of the Center for the Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora at Georgia State University. Mr. Muhammad Abdullah, the Vice President and General Manager of Mountain Arctic Pacific USA at The Coca-Cola Company (previously Vice President and General Manager for the Caribbean) and Dr. Regine O. Jackson, Dean of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Media & Arts and Professor of Sociology at Morehouse College.
This event was hosted by the Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival and SOIL Pictures, with support from The Coca-Cola Company, in collaboration with the Atlanta Haitian World Cup Council, the Consulate General of Haiti in Atlanta, and the Georgia Haitian-American Chamber of Commerce. This event marked the Atlanta premiere of the film following a its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
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