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Secondhand (Pepe) is the product of the help and support of many, many people. We shot with many people who did not make it into the final cut due to the shifting focus of the film.

Secondhand (Pepe) has been a truly collaborative project. Special thanks to:

Bill Schapiro for sharing his grandfather's memoir

Yvon Lamour for hosting a show about pepe on the Caribbean Forum

Trenton Daniel for his translation and fixing while shooting in Haiti

MIT's Comparative Media Studies department—especially Neal Grigsby & Generoso Fierro

Robb Moss & Alfred Guzzetti for their advice

Mike Vazquez for his interest in our photos for Transition Magazine

CAST:
Secondhand (Pepe) features Jeffrey Alexander, Sona Alexis, Leoni Hermantin, Yvon Lamour, Frank & Marie-Serge Lezin, Jospeh Nicodeme, Matt Pakulski, Telmon Pleusimon, Chantal Regnault, Cruff Renard, Ed Stubin, Patrick Sylvain, Lionel Viege, & the Caribbean Forum callers. Adapted from the memoir of Bernard Schapiro, with special thanks to Bill Schapiro.

CREDITS:
A Film by: Shell & Bertozzi
Produced by: Hanna Rose Shell
Edited by: Vanessa Bertozzi
Sound by: Luke Fischbeck
Research by: Hanna Rose Shell
Translation by: Gary Dauphin
Additional Photo by: Randy Bell
Additional Sound by: Mike Reed
Additional Translation by: Ronnell Charles, Franklin Dalembert, Trenton Daniel
Generous Funding by: Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
Fiscally-sponsored by: Documentary Educational Resources
Produced at: Harvard’s Film Study Center & MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program

•Bobby•Vintage connoisseur, owner of Bobby From Boston

•Liz•Store manager, Dollar-a-Pound

•Bruce•Secondhand clothing entrepreneur, former ragdealer & owner of Dollar-a-Pound

•Lenny•Used men's formalwear, owner of Keezer's

•Gretchen•Bride-to-be, bought a used wedding dress used

•Tenzin•Donations pick-up, worker at the Salvation Army

•Kencoff guys discuss pepe

•Matt Pakulski packs it in to a Vietnam Vets collections truck

•Sona, a seamstress in Port-au-Prince

•Ace pops a bale at a ragyard in New Bedford

A pepe shoe dealer in Port-au-Prince

Josue delivers pepe from rag sorting yards to shipping yards

Yvon hosts the Caribbean Forum on WZBC

Georges gives us a Haitian history lesson

Patrick donates clothes to Haiti

Linda sorts at a New Bedford ragyard

Frankie and Marie-Serge packing bales for Haiti

Balers at Dollar-a-Pound
for more photos, please visit our flickr page