The first in a new run of the BFI Award-winning series which gives cameras and training to people to record their own lives.
Searching for a Killer. While in Haiti during the 1987 election, Geoffrey Smith and a friend stumbled across a horrific massacre at a polling station.
A gunman returned to the scene and opened fire, killing the man in front of him and shooting Geoffrey through the leg. Ever since the shooting,
Geoffrey has been plagued by nightmares and fear, and earlier this year he decided to return to Haiti to find the man who shot him, hoping that this may be the key to his recovery. He arrives to find Haiti living under an international trade embargo; violence, fear and oppression are rife under the brutal military junta. Despite his friends' warnings, Geoffrey braves fear, intimidation and silence in his search. He makes friends with a voodoo priest who tries to persuade him to pursue a more Haitian solution-to his problem by immersing himself in the culture and voodoo religion.
Geoffrey's diary is the story of a man desperate to exorcise the ghosts that haunt him. It is a powerful and personal journey through a Haiti never seen on television, an uncompromising portrait of a land which swings between terror and enchantment.
Producer Emma Read
Series producer Bob Long
* SUGGESTIONS: if you would like to make a video diary, write to Video Diaries, Community Programme Unit. Wood Lane. LondonW127RJ.