Chokarella.city

Chokarella City

One city at a time. We arrive. We discover. We connect. We document. And what we find stays here, on chokarella.city.

Chokarella moves into a city to discover the Haitians shaping its businesses, culture and community, create live experiences, and document what we find.

The citiesHow it works

How it works

How Chokarella City works

  1. We pick a city

    Somewhere with a Haitian community doing more than it gets credit for. We go there instead of covering it from somewhere else.

  2. We find the people

    Time on the ground with the people, businesses and places that hold the community together — many of them nominated by the city itself.

  3. We fill the rooms

    Live nights built with the city, not dropped on it — a mixer, a conversation, the show, a stage. What each edition holds changes from city to city.

  4. The city keeps the guide

    Everything is cut after we leave. The films and the city guide land here together and stay — a permanent record of Haitian presence in that city.

Before Chokarella City, there was Takeover

Where this came from

Takeover was the short version: fly in, film fast, leave. In 2026 it becomes a bigger format — storytelling, live events and a permanent city guide that stays behind.

  1. May 2017Takeover beginsThe format starts.
  2. May 2018MiamiThe most established Haitian community in the country.
  3. August 2018New YorkBrooklyn, and everything around it.
  4. January 2019Silicon ValleyFounders, engineers and the diaspora building in tech.
  5. 2020AtlantaA weekend, a camera, and a short list of names.
  6. ParisThe first one outside North America.
  7. 2026AtlantaWe come back — this time with the full Chokarella City format.

The footprint

9 cities. One at a time.

All cities
Coming upAtlanta2026We came in 2020. In 2026 we come back — and this time we stay.Go to Atlanta

On the shortlist