The final screening at small camp right next to where we’re staying in Leogane.  The camp leader said we could come as long as we bought some beers at his bar.  No problem.  Great final screening.  Don’t know if any of us can watch “Kirikou and the Sorceress” ever again, but it has been the most popular film of the trip.  That and “The Red Ballon” which has caused audience reactions like we’ve never seen before.  Literally kids screaming with joy, clapping and cheering.  Really amazing, especially for a pretty much silent film made in 1956!

The old disused cinema in Leogane in the background.  Someone even climbed up on top to watch the films (look close on low bit to the left)

Rappers taking control of the stage.  Probably doing the most performed song of the trip “Benaki”  – which goes “Benaki, Benaki.  Look at me i’ve got money!”  Biggest song in Haiti at the moment.  The crowds loved it everytime, we had from 4 year olds to 15 year olds performing it every talent show.

It’s not all work work work.  We managed to pop to the beach in Leogane for a quick HKKP fashion shoot with Roosevelt the driver (yeah boyeeeee!) Marko, Berlin the translator , and Alex.  Check out the tees.  I was even wearing mine behind the camera

So we’re now in Leogane, staying with volunteer org – All Hands.  We sorted out workshops in a local school straight away.  Alex and Marko got animating and I helped some kids make a little film about their school.

On Monday we visited a little village called Bois Boeuf down the end of a long dirt track where they all live in little white homes which were put up after the earthquake.  They were well chuffed we’d made the effort to visit them.  The talent show went down a storm, the three of our jaws dropped when a mum got up and did a perfect version of “English man in New York” by Sting.  All the kids joined in and sang along too!  Also a granny got up and got the whole village singing and dancing – magic moment.

On Wednesday we left Jacmel for Leogane to do our last few screenings and workshops before returning to the UK. All Hands Disaster Relief (http://hands.org/)kindly invited us to stay in their compound and have been wonderful hosts.

We did some workshops in one of the schools they have rebuilt and tonight did our penultimate screening in a camp known as ‘Stadium’ (it’s in an old football stadium). Below is one of my snapshots. As usual, more professional pictures from Gary to follow…

Over the weekend we had our biggest audiences so far for this trip – up to 400 children and adults a night….

Our MC –  Junior (in the baseball cap) – did an excellent job of organising a big crowd of very excited kids for the pre-film open mic singing and rap competition…

Tuesday is going to be our last night in Jakmel – we’ll be taking the cinema out of town to a little rural camp in the countryside.  Then on Wednesday we’re off to Leogane for our last week in Haiti.

We showed the ‘Globe’ film that the Filton College students made for HKKP to the kids at Trinity House and thought it would be great fun to recreate it Haiti style!

The result is a beautiful little film that Gary managed to put together with the kids in just a couple of hours, defying language barriers and production schedules left, right and center!

We’ll put the film online when we get back to the UK but for now here’s a shot of Gary filming on the roof of Trinity house.

This weekend we’ve been screening to our biggest audience yet at a camp called Bodouin on the outskirts of Jacmel, here’s a piccy from the first night, more accomplished photos from Gary to follow!