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4 nights at Pinchinat
Last night was the 4th spent in Parc Pinchinat, formerly a football field, it has housed a tent camp since the earthquake.
We originally planned to do just 3 nights, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, but Friday got rained off (after a fun afternoon of playing with the kids though, including a stars in yours eyes singing contest!) and so Marko and Gary returned for a 3rd night of films on Monday night (I was ill).
Saturday went off without a hitch, pictures of that soon. But for now, here’s some pictures of sunday night’s screening which was interrupted by a heavy downpour forcing us to hurriedly move the cinema into a USaid shelter mid-film, a bit of a panic but the atmosphere with everyone huddled into the little shack was really wonderful!
Our abandoned outdoor screen-
Gary and Marko playing with the kids earlier that afternoon-
Trinity House workshops
We’ve now done 2 days of workshops at a wonderful school/orphanage in Jacmel called Trinity House.
We’ve been doing stop motion animation workshops with the kids, and Gary made a mini-documentary with them which we’ll show tonight on the big screen when we do a screening on the football pitch adjacent to the school.
more photos from port ail leogane camp
photos by gAry.
1st screening is a big success
Last night we did our first proper screening in Jacmel, at Port ail Leogane.
The Kids Kino attracted an audience of around 150-200 people, mostly children under 10 and we showed a mix of films including both western and Haitian shorts, as well as the feature ‘Kirikou’ – which the kids really went went wild for!
Gary did some filming with the kids while we waited for it to get dark and has edited a short film out of it, we’ll be playing it back for them on the big screen when we go back for a second round of screenings tonight.
Arrived in Haiti!
The team arrived safely in Haiti on Wednesday, and after picking up the equipment left in Port Au Prince from the last trip, we made our way to Jacmel.
Yesterday we had a successful day of shopping for cinema essentials (ropes, hammer, tarpaulin, etc) followed by visiting some tent camps and other potential screening venues. We ended the day with a test rig of our cinema setup which concluded with the screening of a couple of short films to a gathered crowd of about 8 kids!
A great day in all and we expect to put on our first full scale screening tomorrow (Saturday).
Second Trip to Haiti
The Haiti Kids Kino Project is going back to Haiti for a second trip…
On October 18th three Cube volunteers will be flying out to do four weeks of outdoor cinema and video workshops with children displaced by the 2010 earthquake.
This time the team will be going to Jacmel, a town on the south coast, where we’ll be showing a selection of the best international children’s films in tent cities; and at the workshops children will be able to learn how to make short animations and videos.
Its been 15 months since the first HKKP trip to Haiti (you can see a video about that trip here). During that time a lot of fundraising events have taken place in and around Bristol and we’d like to say a big Thank You to everyone whose contributed. The second trip was originally scheduled for the beginning of this year, but due to the outbreak of Cholera and general unrest around the time of the election, it was postponed. Sadly some of the people who put in loads of work for that postponed trip aren’t able to come this time due to work and life commitments – we’d like to say a huge thank you to them for all the effort they put in.
pictures : HKKP’s March/April trip to Port-au-Prince and Leogane.
We’ll be posting blog entries, photos and videos during the next weeks…
Hello Haiti from Filton College
Big thanks to Claire Simmons and all the media students at Filton College for making us this great film to take out with us and show to kids in Haiti. It’ll be so much fun screening it as they’ve given us the inflatable globe featured in the film to toss out into the audiences in Haiti, as well as the flag with scores of greetings from the Filton students. The students also staged a fundraising cabaret show and donated the proceeds to HKKP, allowing us to put on yet more screenings out in Haiti, so again, huge thanks to all of you at Filton College who made this happen!
Haiti Kids Kino Project at Hay Festival
Haiti Kids Kino Project at Hay Festival from Kids Kino on Vimeo.
HKKP was invited to run a one day workshop at this year’s Hay Festival. This is a short film called “From Hay to Haiti” made up of pictures and animations created by children and young people on the day… A big Thank You to everyone who took part!
Haiti Kids Kino Project – New Film
Here’s a new film made from footage of the Haiti Kids Kino Project’s visit to Haiti in March and April 2010. Many thanks to everyone in the film! The locations that are featured are in Delmas and Cite Soeil in Port au Prince, and in Leogane.