Event

Fatal Assistance

Friday, January 23rd, 7:30pm

Raoul Peck: Après the Earthquake
(Reflecting back on Haiti's devastating earthquake 5 years later with a look at the documentaries and fiction vérité from globally recognized 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.)

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

Fatal Assistance
Raoul Peck, 2013, 100 min
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, the film dives headlong into the complexity of the reconstruction process and the practice and impact of worldwide humanitarian and development aid, revealing in the most disturbing way the extent of a general failure. This crushing fact based documentary leads to the only plausible conclusion immediate cessation of current aid policies and practice.

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 filmedshrewd in its analysis" David D'Arcy, Screen Daily

Q&A with director Raoul Peck and Michelle Materre, followed by a reception with cuisine of the Haitian Diaspora, provided by Harlem Karibe, and a performance from renowned Brooklyn-Born Haitian Singer-Songwriter Melanie Charles.