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Portrait

Perry Cassagnol of a

Filmmaker

To-date, Perry has directed and edited over seven music videos, six
short films, three feature Films, four commercials and two reality
show pilots.

As a musician, Perry has sung both back and lead vocals, played
percussion and played the bass guitar in three bands. However, his
rise to fame in the Haitian community occurred in the early 1990s,
when he and four friends formed
the popular new generation band called ETNIK. Perry was also the
first bassist to play with a five string bass in the Haitian community.
As the bassist of ETNIK, he kept the groove going alternating be-
tween new generation melodic lines and hard core Compas. Born in
Haiti and raised in New York City with a strong Haitian heritage, his
musical influence is no mistake.
Unfortunately, the band disbanded after completing their second al-
bum but no doubt left its mark in the Haitian music world. Perry is
erry is not only a filmmaker, screenwriter, editor, also a music producer and operates his very own recording studio.
actor but is also a Musician. Perry’s filmmak-
ing career began while he was in high school Most notably, Perry is the owner of a Florida based production com-
in Brooklyn, New York. Twenty years later, he pany named NITERBOYS ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. The compa-
changed his focus from music to the cinema to ny specializes in the production of Films, Videos and Commercials.
become a filmmaker by attending film school.
Perry has a Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Industrial En-
POnce he earned his filmmaking skills he differ- gineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York, an MBA from the
entiated himself among the rest. University of Miami, a Post Graduate Certificate in Biomedical and
Clinical Engineering Technology from Touro College of New York,
During his first year of Film school, Perry formed his produc- a Finance certificate from New York University and a Film degree
tion company and begun marketing himself. By the end of the from Miami Dade College.
first year of film school, he had written, directed and edited
three short films and two music videos and even created a real- You can catch Perry this summer at the 1st annual Miami Inner City
ity show. One of his short films (viz. A LITTLE INTIMIDA- Film Festival from May 8th –May 10th 2012 in Miami, Florida.
TION), was an official selection at the Miami Beach Ecubator
Film Festival. In his second year of film school, he directed and By: Stephane Achille
edited a music video for a Christian artist named Doug Gordon.
This music video was well received and is currently used solely
by the Miami Rescue Mission as an official tool during their
fundraising drive to raise money for the homeless.
In 2008, he directed and edited another music video named
BABY GIRL for a Top Haitian artist named TANTAN (Stanley
Toussaint). This music video was voted as one of the top three
music videos in the Caribbean and featured Actress/Model Ste-
phane Achille.

In that same year in 2008, Perry made his narrative feature film
directorial debut in the feature film entitled *THE FORGOT-
TEN FATHER*. This film won the “Best Dramatic Feature
Award” at one of the countries largest film festival. Perry wrote
and directed his second narrative feature film entitled “*A MIS-
TAKEN LOOK*”. He is currently filming the trailer of his third
feature film entitled “*i589*”.

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