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Will Prosper Wieland (Will) Prosper is a Haitian Canadian filmmaker and activist from Montreal, Quebec.

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artist and activist Alain Philoctète, as he tries to establish a

permaculture Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using Systems theory, whole-systems thinking. It applies t ...

project in Haiti as his final legacy toward his birth country, while battling the terminal cancer that would ultimately take his life in 2020. The film premiered at the 2019

Montreal International Documentary Festival The Montreal International Documentary Festival () is a Canadian documentary film festival, staged annually in Montreal, Quebec. In English, the festival now goes by the name Montreal International Documentary Festival, while retaining the French- ...

, where it was the winner of the People's Choice Award, before going into commercial release in 2020. The film was longlisted for the

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in 2020."In brief: Latimer, Deer among DGC's Discovery long list"
'' Playback'', September 18, 2020.

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* 2019 films 2019 documentary films Canadian documentary films Documentary films about visual artists Films shot in Haiti National Film Board of Canada documentaries 2010s Canadian films French-language Canadian films Documentary films about Black Canadians {{2010s-Canada-documentary-film-stub