Johnny Desarmes

When Nadine Lazard (Kenya Moore), wife of Richard Lazard (Rudulph Moise), comes up missing, the focus immediately turns on her husband, a prominent Haitian doctor. The plot thickens when Violet Martin (vivica A. Fox), a beautiful detective assigned to the case, is led to believe that Nadine was the victim of a powerful Haitian Voodoo priest (Obba Babatunde). But nothing is as it seems in this complex psychological thriller that delves into the dark world of Voodoo, deception, and the fragility of the mind. Clifton Powell, Miguel Nunez Jr., and Jean Claude LaMarre costar.

The feature film "Life Outside of Pearl" is about a lower-middle class Haitian-American family assimilating into a new culture, while maintaining their ethnic identity. The family patriarch presents a proud exterior earning a living as a taxi cab driver trying to keep his adulterous affair, a secret. His wife is are of his indiscretions but chooses to deny her own needs to keep her home and family intact. Jean, the couple's teenage son is smart, but naively decides to postpone college to pursue dreams of opening a computer shop in the neighborhood. Jean uses illegal means to raise capital for the shop and he gets involved with less than savory friends. Jean's sister finds love with her new boyfriend only to have her romantic fairy tale life shattered by catching her father with another woman. Marco, the handsome family cousin is a local police officer trying to balance his life on the street with family involvement.