Author Archives: Mko

A Day (and evening) in Leogane After a hot morning in the back of the pick up truck trying to find a working ATM  (it turned out the Visa connection to Haiti is down), we drove over to Leogane. Leogane’s a … 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 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 →

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 →

Screen test We had so much kit on the plane , we couldn’t carry a frame for the screen, and had to trust in our luck that we’d be able to improvise out here… Luckily for us Eric, the Sinema … Continue reading →

Street market – view from the bus coming into Port au Prince Tent city in back left of the photo (click on the picture to make it bigger) We’re here… both totally exhausted. Staying with the Sinema Anba Zetwal (Cinema Under … Continue reading →