Read "PORT-AU-PRINCE" by Pappy!

Can A Movie Help Haiti More Than Charity Can?


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Pappy

shmaporist
Dear FC-ers,
The popularity of ebooks has made it feasible to publish my own screenplay for the first time... "PORT-AU-PRINCE" is a ghost story/political thriller with ties to the 2010 Haitian earthquake. But it isn't just nail biting entertainment. It was written to help the people of Haiti, a country I love.

By arrangement with Vtac, part of the proceeds from sales via FC will be donated to J/P HRO, Sean Penn's Haitian relief organization. The ebook is priced at just $2.99 so everyone can afford to read it. You can download a sample or the entire ebook on your Kindle, iPhone, iPad, Nook, Kobo, or Sony Reader, etc, via the app store. I look forward to your reviews.

Thanks!
Pappy


"PORT-AU-PRINCE" SYNOPSIS
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Now, for the first time ever, the shocking truth behind the 2010 Haitian earthquake can be told. Politics and the occult collide in the story of an American bride honeymooning in Port-au-Prince abducted by a Voodoo cult and turned into a zombie. The same evil force responsible for Haiti's poverty and misery is behind the girl's abduction. Now the Voodoo spirits are angry and only an earthquake can save Haiti and her!

Newlyweds Evelyn and Dominick Bianchi choose Port-au-Prince for their honeymoon because the bride has long lost relatives there. One of her cousins, Bijou, is a famous Voodoo priestess. But an ominous feeling overwhelms Evelyn before the couple arrives.

The feeling of dread continues... On her first night in Port-au-Prince Evelyn sees a ghost, the ghost of Toussaint Louverture, one of Haiti’s founding fathers. We learn she is his descendant, as is Bijou, her cousin.

Bijou invites the newlyweds to lunch and poisons Evelyn. She begins hallucinating and mistakes another cousin for Toussaint Louverture, the apparition she saw the night before. Evelyn is under Bijou’s spell before she knows what hit her!

Bijou invites the couple to a Voodoo ceremony that night where they meet Jolicoeur, a mysterious Haitian power broker who is a dirty old leach. Dominick and Evelyn are drugged during the ceremony and something goes terribly awry!

Dominick wakes from his drug induced coma two days later in a Port-au-Prince hospital where a Haitian Police Inspector informs him Evelyn is dead. She burned to death in a fire! After viewing the charred remains Dominick doesn’t believe it’s his wife. He’s right!

Bijou has turned Evelyn into a zombie, a living dead person, in a bizarre kidnap for ransom plot masterminded by Jolicoeur. Evelyn, in her zombie trance, communes with ancient ancestors including Baron Samedi, the Voodoo Spirit of Death.

Through her trance we learn Baron Samedi placed a curse on Toussaint Louverture during the Haitian Revolution that amounted to a curse on Haiti’s future. Two centuries of poverty, misery, and tyranny followed, making life in Haiti hell on earth!

Dominick, the groom, is in way over his head! Jolicoeur is the largest slave trafficker in the Caribbean. If Dominick doesn’t fork over his life savings Jolicoeur will happily sell his zombie bride to the highest bidder!

Uncle Sam rides to the rescue in the person of Waldo Pell, a U.S. State department liaison with murky ties to the C.I.A. Pell was going to arrest Jolicoeur before Evelyn’s abduction. Now he must save her from him!
 

t-dub

Vapor Sloth
Wow pappy, I just feel like I've read the synopsis in the Playbill at the opera :)

Sorry for the no vote but i feel the corruption is to such a degree that no amount of $$$ will help. Something fundamental needs to change there for things to progress.
 
t-dub,
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Pappy

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Wow pappy, I just feel like I've read the synopsis in the Playbill at the opera :)

Sorry for the no vote but i feel the corruption is to such a degree that no amount of $$$ will help. Something fundamental needs to change there for things to progress.
Thanks TDub.... I feel ya! I actually believe popular mass entertainment can do more to help Haiti's plight than all the charity efforts and news stories combined. People don't look at Haiti, they overlook it! And the political culture is too corrupt for the residuals of charity to trickle down to the people. :2c:

That's why I wrote Port-au-Prince. :peace:
 
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