ABOUT

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His first documentary, A Promising Voice, which explores a Black student's journey navigating a predominantly white college campus, won the Audience Award at Arkansas Cinema Society: Filmland 2020 and Best Student Film at Made in Arkansas Film Festival. In 2021, the Fayetteville Film Fest awarded him the Best Emerging Filmmaker distinction for his documentary Once Forgotten, recounting the story of three enslaved individuals lynched in 1856 in Arkansas.

 

Several organizations such as the University of Arkansas, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Arts, Vox Media, Arkansas Soul, Visionairi, the Equal Justice Initiative have directly or indirectly used Obed's visual storytelling skills.

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Humanity, identity, and dignity that's what Obed's work is all about. Obed has nurtured a passion for storytelling from her mother, who devoted most of the evenings to telling them stories of her childhood under a dictatorship in Haiti. That is what ultimately drove him to become a journalist. During his five-year career as a reporter, he has covered presidential elections, natural disasters, civil unrest for national and international media outlets such as La Presse.ca, Radio-Canada Information, and Voice of America. In 2018, Obed co-founded Enfo Sitwayen, a multimedia platform focusing on media literacy and civic education. 

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Obed is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship that allowed him to complete his Master's degree in Journalism at the University of Arkansas. He also holds a B.A. in Business Administration and studied Social Communications in Haïti. 

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Obed is the third and only boy of three children. He is currently living in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where long walks and biking are enjoyed. In addition, he is an avid podcast listener, practicing Spanish, and loves chocolate in all shapes or forms.