Raoul Peck: Aprés the Earthquake
/OFFSITE LOCATION: The Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church
16-20 Mount Morris Park West (Southwest corner of West 122nd Street)
Raoul Peck: Après the Earthquake
(Thursday, January 22nd-Sunday, January 25th)
Curated by Michelle Materre and the Creatively Speaking Film Series
Co-sponsored by the Haiti Cultural Exchange, The DDPA (Durban Declaration & Programme of Action) Watch Group, The BDC (Black Documentary Collective), The Haitian Creole Language Institute and Harlem Karibe
(Reflecting back on Haiti’s devastating earthquake 5 years later with a look at the
documentaries and fiction verite from globally recognized and Haitian born
master filmmaker Raoul Peck. A portion of the proceeds will go to Ciné Institute, Haiti's only film school, fostering a new generation of Haitian filmmakers.)
Haiti: 5 Years Later
A Public Health Forum
OFFSITE LOCATION: The Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church
16-20 Mount Morris Park West (Southwest corner of West 122nd Street)
This program will include a screening of Raoul Peck's Fatal Assistance
followed by a panel discussion/forum with Peck and public health
officials and experts on where we go from here. Billions of dollars in
aid has been raised since the devastating earthquake and the question
is still being asked -- where did all that money go? After the
earthquake in 2010, foundations from around the world pledged more
than $9 billion to help get the country back on its feet. Only a
fraction of the money ever made it to Haiti. Roughly 350,000 people
still live in camps. Many others simply moved back to the same
shoddily built structures that proved so deadly during the disaster.
5 years later the impoverished nation stands no better equipped to
improve itself. In this forum we will unpack this dilemma with help of
Peck and his earth shattering film Fatal Assistance, expert panelists
and community members, and build together about next steps.
Fatal Assistance
Raoul Peck, 2013, 100 min
Award-winning Haitian-born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a two-year
journey inside the challenging, contradictory, and colossal rebuilding
efforts in post-earthquake Haiti. Through its provocative point of
view, Fatal Assistance offers a devastating indictment of the
international community’s post-disaster idealism. The film dives
headlong into the complexity of the reconstruction process and the
practices and impact of worldwide humanitarian and development aid,
revealing the disturbing extent of a general failure. We learn that a
major portion of the money pledged to Haiti was never disbursed, nor
made it into the actual reconstruction. Fatal Assistance leads us to
one clear conclusion: current aid policies and practice in Haiti need
to stop immediately.
Berlin International Film Festival, 2013
San Francisco International Film Festival, 2013
Human Rights Watch Film Festival, 2013
“Written and directed with intelligence and authority” – Deborah
Young, Hollywood Reporter
“Powerful” – Variety
“Lyrically filmed…shrewd in its analysis” – David D’Arcy, Screen Daily
Followed by a panel discussion with director Raoul Peck, Michelle Materre, La'Shawn Allen Muhammad, the director of training for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and Allah Smalls, EMT and Chief of Operations, Bed Stuy Volunteer Ambulance Corp.
La'Shawn Allen Muhammad is an expert in the field of Public Health. She is the director of training for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and the CEO and founder of Entrepreneurs of New York. She is also the Deputy Executive Director of Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation and the Brooklyn Director of the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce (LIAACC).
Allah Smalls, EMT and Chief of Operations, Bed Stuy Volunteer Ambulance Corp., was one of the first 145 responders to arrive in Port of Prince after the earthquake, with volunteer Ministers, Wyclef Jean and BSVAC (The Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps).
8:00pm
(at the Maysles Cinema)
Reception with cuisine of the Haitian diaspora, provided by Harlem Karibe, and dance party with music from Haitian American DJ -- DJ Fritzo.
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