Lindsay Laviolette RIP

   Many of the world's 10 million + Haitians were shocked and saddened by the recent sudden death of Montrealer Lindsay Laviolette, 35, who was a rising star in Haitian cinema.
   Most of the films made for the Haitian creole market are shot a low budget in Miami or Montreal, so our city and some such residents are well-known co-stars familiar to countless Haitians who buy the DVDs from street vendors.
   Laviolette starred in such passionate romantic dramas as Les Draguers Dragues, Mechant Cousins I & II and La Verite Blesse, shot in Jacmel, a beach-town in the south of Haiti.
   Laviolette, 35, had just given birth to her first baby seven months ago, a little girl named Neema.
   She had gone to Ahuntsic College in Electrical Engineering and initially aimed for a career in TV here, but that didn't happen so she worked in real estate and also apparently worked at a magazine here too along with making movies for Haitian audiences.
   She had felt in good shape but she went for a routine check-up on Oct. 9 at the Jewish General, which revealed that she had advanced lung cancer and was dead just 20 days later, on Oct. 29.