Some documentaries just make you feel good about the world and the people in it, and "La Source" is definitely one of those.
Directed by Patrick Shen, "La Source" opens with its subject, Josue Lajeunesse, a lead janitor at Princeton, receiving the university's prestigious Journey Award, given to someone exemplifying the spirit of Martin Luther King and in this case making the problems of others his own.
Lajeunesse is an immigrant from the small Haitian town of La Source, and he works two jobs, often 20 hours a day, to support not only his own family in New Jersey but also the extended family he left behind in Haiti.
Featured in Shen's earlier film, "The Philosopher Kings," which examines the lives and thoughts of university janitors, Lajeunesse is especially passionate about improving and modernizing the water system of his birthplace.
