Jean-François Chalut was born in Montreal, Canada in 1953. In 1980 he settles down in Haiti where he realized various documentaries on the voodoo and worked as freelance for Haitian and international organization. On returning to Canada in 2001, he collaborated to diverse audiovisual projects with Cidihca of which The Roads of the Memory: Haiti before Duvalier Prize NFB better independent production, Vues d’Afrique 2002 and Mizik Mayestwo documentary on the history of the Haitian music.