Patricia Benoit

Patricia Benoit is the director of Stones in the Sun, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2012. Benoit was born in Haiti and lives in New York, where she co-founded the Haitian Women’s Program. She has been an artist-in-residence at Ramapo College, a Time Warner Storytelling Fellow, and a recipient of NYF and NYSCA grants and an NBPC award. She has participated in the Sundance directors and screenwriters lab.

Talks

Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) Talks Patricia Benoit’s Stones in the Sun

Film
By Yung Chang | November 17, 2014
By Yung Chang | November 17, 2014

Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) Talks Patricia Benoit’s Stones in the Sun

The documentary filmmaker is greatly impressed by this intimate, simply told drama, and particularly by one movingly authentic opening scene.