Director’s Statement 

As a Haitian American filmmaker and mother raising a daughter in New York City, I was immediately drawn to Edwidge Danticat’s New York Day Women—a story that delicately captures the friction between visibility and invisibility, especially for women navigating multiple cultural identities. What resonates most deeply with me is the way the story explores how women—particularly immigrant women—often compartmentalize or conceal parts of themselves to survive. To assimilate. To belong.

This film is not just an adaptation—it’s a meditation on the masks we wear in public, and the truths we tuck away for the sake of moving through the world safely. As someone existing at the intersection of many identities at once—Black, Haitian, American, Woman, Mother, Queer—I see this story as a mirror for the moments we hide who we are to protect who we love. The mother in this story is a symbol of duality, of endurance, and of the quiet revolutions women perform every day to bridge their past with their present.

This is my tribute to the women who hold multitudes. To the ones who shift their tongues, change their stride, and code-switch their way through entire lives—all while building new worlds for their children. 

      -Fredgy Noël