Michelange Quay
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Tribeca All Access® 2005
About
A native New Yorker, Michelange Quay studied anthropology and film at the University of Miami and New York University before going on to work on his master’s degree in Film Production at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. During his time at NYU, Michelage made a documentary Myth of Seus and a short Forty Days, and subsequently shot Qu’on Leurs Donne des Yo-Yo in Haiti and France. Quay was selected to participate in the 2002 Résidence Ciné Fondation for Directors at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where his most recent short film Gospel of the Creole Pig was an official selection.
Eat, For This Is My Body
An unusual relationship between a woman and her young servant, Patrick, sets them on a visceral journey of self-discovery across the poverty stricken landscape of Haiti.