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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