Miami, FL — Audastio, the Miami-based multilingual podcast storytelling network, is pleased to announce that television veteran Easmanie Michel will adapt the classic Haitian novel Masters of the Dew into an English-language retelling for our podcast platform.
Whereas the original plot of Masters of the Dew focused on the character of Manuel who returns from Cuba with newfound political ideas in the 1940s, this rendition of the novel will be set in the 1980s, and the character of Anäise will play a bigger role as a local nurse who takes us through the laissez-faire structure of a Haitian village while, with the help of Manuel, uniting a community fractured by a family feud.
Easmanie Michel’s screenplay Caroline’s Wedding, an adaptation of the Edwidge Danticat story of the same name, was the Grand Prize Winner of the American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest in 2018, a finalist for the NYU Fusion Film Festival, and was selected for the Women at Sundance Financing and Strategy Intensive workshop in 2016. Michel has worked continuously in the film and television industry since 2004, working on films like Transporter 2, Hoot and Miami Vice. Television projects Miami Ink and Burn Notice. Michel has produced and directed several short films and has a Master’s Degree in Cinema Studies from New York University.
In October Audastio announced it would develop and produce a serialized-podcast adaptation of the novel by the Haitian author Jacques Roumain.
“I hope listeners will get a sense of the poetics found in this fictional Haitian farming community dealing with the human condition while trying to unite for a common good,” said Michel.
Gouverneur De La Rosée, or Masters of the Dew, was published in Haiti in 1944 to critical acclaim and has since been translated into over twenty languages. Audastio co-founder and Senior Sound Engineer Francky Jean will direct and produce the series.
David is a published author and Founder of Audastio, a Miami-based multilingual podcast storytelling network. He is also a Sant La Fellow and a Year Up Alumni.
