17 Year Locust

A short film about an unlikely crossing of paths with one common connection: the French language.

Winner of the 2020 CreateLouisiana French Culture Film Grant, 17 Year Locust is a story of a struggling Haitian immigrant in South Louisiana who takes a job as a caregiver to a dying woman. The woman shares with him a secret that casts a haunting shadow on the American life that he has desperately been pursuing and questions the native French culture he is on the verge of shedding.