Monthly Archives: March 2010

Sat 1st & Sun 2nd May/ 1pm-5pm/ £1 + donations – SPIKE ISLAND OPEN DAY, BRISTOL Nanoplex presents a fundraising event for HKKP – The Children’s Film and Zoetrope Workshop. An afternoon of screenings, workshops and raffles. HKKP (Haiti Kids Kino … Continue reading →

On Wednesday we went over to a little school where our friend Will Le Le works. Since the earthquake all the schools are shut,  but this one takes place under some tarpaulins in a yard and is run by volunteers – mostly local … Continue reading →

This little bit of video was supposed to go with an earlier post but this is the first time we’ve had a fast enough internet connection to upload it… The little girl on the left reminds us a lot of … Continue reading →

A day in Port au Prince – by Dave Today consisted of: Waking up at 7am after 6 hours sleep (a lie in). Long walk in sun to buy bread and eggs for breakers, as pantry empty (only food for some time … Continue reading →

Press update… HKKP appears in article from the Royal Geographical Society … and … Marko and Dave appear at the end of this show, a co-production between the World Service and APR. [audio:http://media.theworld.org/audio/03232010full.mp3|titles=Public Radio International’s “The World”]

A lot of people in Haiti speak a little French, which is why we show films in French – but Kreyol is the real language of the people and definitely the language of our audience.The structure of the language comes … Continue reading →

HKKP is featured in the Guardian on Monday, 22nd March 2010. Also the article can be read online here

Our fourth screening was at a camp on Route Delmar 33…3000 people living in incredibly tightly packed tents on a football pitch. Early arrivers The third short film of the screening was “Hedgehog in the Fog” made in 1974 by … Continue reading →

This morning after looking at potential venues in a camp in the Delmar neighborhood of Port au Prince, I went with Joseph Hillel a Haitian/ French Canadian volunteer with CECI to Ranches de Jeunesse. The Ranch used to be Ranch Duvalier … Continue reading →

Last night we took the Kino with Laurence and her crew to the funeral of Denis in the country town of Cabaret. Denis was one of the incredible interviewees in Laurence Magloire and Anne Lescont’s 2006 documentary Hommes Et Des … Continue reading →