Haiti Cultural Exchange

Zombi Child
2022-06-25 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street, New York, NY, 10007, United States
Haiti Film Fest is presenting the diversity, depth and vibrant spirit of the Haitian people through contemporary cinema.

About this event

In 2022, Haiti Cultural Exchange produces the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in collaboration with Les Lumières du Sud.
HAITI FILM FEST SCREENINGS
Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26
The Flea Theater (The Sam) | 20 Thomas St, New York, NY 10007
Screenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers, industry professionals and scholars.
$10 suggested donation for film screenings. RSVP REQUIRED.
See full schedule by clicking on this: Haiti Film Fest 2022 Schedule

Zombi Child | Film | 103 Minutes | 8:00pmDirector: Bertrand Bonello
***Film is in French w/ English Subtitles
Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl con-fesses an old family secret to a group of new friends – never imagining that this strange tale will conVince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.

Spotlight on Haiti with Pierre-Michel Jean
2022-06-25 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street, New York, NY, 10007, United States
Haiti Film Fest is presenting the diversity, depth and vibrant spirit of the Haitian people through contemporary cinema.

About this event

In 2022, Haiti Cultural Exchange produces the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in collaboration with Les Lumières du Sud.
HAITI FILM FEST SCREENINGS
Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26
The Flea Theater (The Sam) | 20 Thomas St, New York, NY 10007
Screenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers, industry professionals and scholars.
$10 suggested donation for film screenings. RSVP REQUIRED.
See full schedule by clicking on this: Haiti Film Fest 2022 Schedule

*** Films are in Haitian Creole w/ English Subtitles
Portrait of a Filmmaker with His Cat | Documentary | 5 MinutesDirector: Pierre-Michel Jean
My phone is like the black box of my life. I take it out of my pocket to memorize the slightest swirls of reality that challenge me. Retroactively, whole sections of my life can be told in this way. A few weeks before the global pandemic, I returned from a trip to Europe. This change of places, contexts of atmospheres and the sudden fear of the outside I wanted to show all that with my phone video archives. How the love of what I do, the love to inform others allows us to surpass ourselves.

Say Forgetting as a Lie /L’oublie pour Mensonge | Documentary | 33 minutesDirector : Pierre-Michel Jean
October 1937, the Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo massacred more than 20,000 Haitian immigrants in the North of the Dominican Republic. A genocide passed over in silence that the Domin-ican government still does not recognize today. Before the memories fade, child witnesses and survi-vors of this appalling massacre more than eight decades later tell fragments of their story. As a re-minder to ward off the present and guard against the future.

Towo La Cou| Documentary | 65 minutes
Director: Pierre-Michel Jean
Every year at Easter, the heirs of the musical Rara Group ‘‘Towo La Cou’’ barely manage to pay the musicians and thus honor the tradition of their father: bringing the group to downtown Léogâne and defends the colors of Acul, their small village. This documentary film follows ‘‘Towo La Cou’’, a story of a whole community of destinies suspended by the toll of the high cost of living and a visceral need for music.

Post-Film Screening Q&A with Director & Filmmaker Guetty Félin

Kafe Negro & Madan Sara
2022-06-25 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street, New York, NY, 10007, United States
Haiti Film Fest is presenting the diversity, depth and vibrant spirit of the Haitian people through contemporary cinema.

About this event

In 2022, Haiti Cultural Exchange produces the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in collaboration with Les Lumières du Sud.
HAITI FILM FEST SCREENINGS
Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26
The Flea Theater (The Sam) | 20 Thomas St, New York, NY 10007
Screenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers, industry professionals and scholars.
$10 suggested donation for film screenings. RSVP REQUIRED.
See full schedule by clicking on this : Haiti Film Fest 2022 Schedule

***Doors open at 1h pm | Screenings begin at 2:00pm
Kafe Negro: Cuba & The Haitian Revolution | Documentary | 52 Minutes | 2:00pm
Documentary in French and Spanish w/English subtitles
Director: Mario Delatour
Kafe Negro: Cuba & The Haitian Revolution is a film that explores the social, economic & historical ramification of the Haitian Revolution on Cuba. This film tells the story of the waves of migration of Haitian workers who, over time, profoundly transformed the culture and demography of Cuba and developed coffee growing on the island.

Madan Sara | Documentary| 50 Minutes | 3:00pm
Director: Etant Dupain
Documentary in Haitian Creole w/English subtitles
The documentary tells the stories of these indefatigable women who work at the margins to make Haiti’s economy run. It amplifies the calls of the Madan Sara as they speak directly to society to share their dreams for a more just Haiti.
Post-Film Screening Q&A with Director

Spotlight on Brooklyn & Haiti Filmmakers
2022-06-24 18:00 - 22:00 UTC | The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street, New York, NY, 10007, United States
SOLD OUT
Haiti Film Fest is presenting the diversity, depth and vibrant spirit of the Haitian people through contemporary cinema.

About this event

In 2022, Haiti Cultural Exchange produces the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in collaboration with Les Lumières du Sud.
HAITI FILM FEST SCREENINGS
Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26
The Flea Theater (The Sam) | 20 Thomas St, New York, NY 10007
Screenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers, industry professionals and scholars.
$10 suggested donation for film screenings. RSVP REQUIRED.
See full schedule by clicking on this : Haiti Film Fest 2022 Schedule

**Doors Open at 5:00pm| Screenings begin promptly at 6:00pm
Haiti Film Fest: SPOTLIGHT ON BROOKLYN FILMMAKERS
Dyaspora. Haitians Abroad: Exploring Language and Identity| Documentary| 39 Minutes | 6:00pm
Directors: Emmanuella Aristil, Nancy Fenelon
This short documentary Dyaspora. Haitians Abroad: Exploring Language and Identity, is looking into the subject of identity, language and duality within the Haitian American community. Through personal perspectives within the NYC diaspora, the directors seek to broaden the discussion and gain insight to this very question.
The Rain and The River | Short Film| 31 Minutes | 6:45pm
Director: Jean Lodescar Jr.
In the short film, The Rain And The River, an overly passive man (Alexander) who yearns to live life and find love must first battle his self-doubt and overbearing mother (Marie). Alexander grapples with barriers placed on him in his life and contemplates adversity. Underneath it all is strength and courage rooted in his ancestors…a strength he didn’t know he had.
Kay La Mande Wouze | Documentary | 8 Minutes | 7:15pm
Director: Jessica St. Vil Ulysse
When we as the Diaspora look at our motherland, we look at this ongoing narrative of civil unrest, in-justice, and in-equality and then we take a look at our lives here in the U.S. and realize we are battling some of those same issues; What are to do? The Film explore through movement where we as POC can draw from the strengthen our efforts to the idea of confronting these discriminations? How do we begin to spark change within ourselves and within our communities? Kay la Mande Wouze? There is a need of change. There is a need for a revolution. What role will YOU play in it?
Elena| Documentary | 30 Minutes | 7:30pm
Director : Michèle Stephenson
Spanish and Haitian Creole with w/ English Subtitles
In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, on the basis of anti-black racism. Fast-forward to 2013, the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents, retroactive to 1929, rendering more than 200,000 people stateless.
Post-Film Screening Q & A with Directors

Haiti Film Fest : SPOTLIGHT ON HAITI with Rachelle Salnave & Marc Henry Valmond
Films are in Haitian Creole w/ English Subtitles
Men nan Men| Documentary | 15 Minutes | 8:00 pm
Director: Wilson Edmond
Inspired by the hit TV show “Orange is the New Black,” a young woman from Haiti galvanizes her friends to teach female prisoners Arts and crafts activities with the intentions of bringing them hope. Through the solidarity of her community, Men Nan Men is a documentary that follows Estella’s experiences working with women in the prison system and gives voice to this forgotten population.
The Vocation| Documentary | 8 Minutes| 8:20 pm
Director : Estaïlove St-Val
Bertho, a 34-year-old young man runs an arts and culture organization in Pétion-Ville, Haiti in the hopes of creating change in his neighborhood and keeping the youth out of the streets.
Eskwad | Documentary| 12 Minutes|8:40 pm
Director : Keziah Jean
Weeks after the Earthquake, Eskwad captures a small grassroots organization in Haiti at the center of authentic community development. Eskwad captures Haitians using unity as their key ingredient in cultivating sustainability in the agro-industry.
Madame Pipi | USA, LABADIE-HAITI | Documentary | 9:00 pm
Director : Rachelle Salnave
Madame Pipi follows the personal journeys of female Haitian bathroom attendants in Miami’s hottest nightclubs and their support to Haiti through their tips.
Post-Film Screening Q&A with Directors

Haiti Film Fest Opening Night
2022-06-23 19:00 - 23:00 UTC | Nitehawk Cinema – Prospect Park, 188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, New York, 11215, United States
Ticket sales have ended

Sales have ended for this event and we are currently sold out. No tickets will be sold at the door. Please be sure to join us for the remainder of the Haiti Film Fest (June 24 – 26) at the Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street, New York, NY 10007. For more information visit: www.haiticulturalx.org

Haiti Cultural Exchange presents the 5th edition of Haiti Film Fest OPENING NIGHT screening with FREDA, by Director Gessica Généus

ABOUT THIS EVENT

In 2022, Haiti Cultural Exchange (HCX) will produce the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in partnership with Les Lumières du Sud.
Join us for the Brooklyn Premiere Screening of FREDA, by Director Gessica Généus, in partnership with SaNosi Productions, Ayizan Productions & Merveilles Production.
Thursday, June 23rd, 2022 at Nitehawk Cinemas, Prospect Park West featuring a Q & A with Gessica Généus.
“FREDA lives with her family in a poor neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. They make ends meet thanks to their small street shop. Faced with precarious living conditions and the rise in violence in Haiti, each of them wonders whether to stay or leave. Freda, however, wants to believe in the future of her country.”
Haiti Film Fest was established by Haiti Cultural Exchange in 2011 and has featured a diverse array of films, from award winning full-length features to compelling shorts, by emerging and established filmmakers from throughout the US, Haiti, Canada, Cuba, and Europe. Over the past four installments, the festival has drawn an English, French, and Creole speaking audience of over 3,000, connecting our diverse community to stories of exile, trauma, identity, and belonging.
Opening Night: Thurs, June 23rd 7-9pm
After Party 9pm-11pm
Nitehawk Cinemas, 188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215
**Film is in Haitian Creole & French, Sub-Tilted in English.
**To help support Haiti Film Fest, please plan to purchase a minimum of $25 worth of food/beverage during the film screening**
**Cash bar for after party*

Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26
Haiti Film Fest Screenings at The Flea Theater: 20 Thomas Street, New York, NY 10007

Mizik Ayiti! at Zanmi Restaurant featuring Buyu Ambroise & The Blues in Red Band
2022-05-29 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Zamni Restaurant, 1206 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Mizik Ayiti! at Lakou CAFÉ
2022-05-29 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | Lakou Café, 195 Utica Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Mizik Ayiti! at Grandchamps featuring Okai Musik
2022-05-27 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | Grandchamps, 197 Patchen Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Mizik Ayiti! featuring Sherlee Skai singing acoustic ballads
2022-05-07 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 990 Washington Avenue, Brookyln, NY, United States
Presenting World Music singer-songwriter Sherlee Skai who brings a unique sound shaped by multicultural influences from Haitian folklore to American jazz and soul. She sings from the heart combining art, story,and song in perfect unison.
Based in New York where she graced the stages of Harlem Week, New-York Marathon, and more, Sherlee Skai’s music celebrates her origin and culture, shares her vision as an immigrant, a woman standing in front of life, hence the title of her album “TOUTOUNI” (Bare Naked).
Sherlee is a politically active and engaged artist and makes it her duty to promote Haitian culture and bringawarenesstothesocial and politicalissues inHaiti.

Haitian Drumming & Dance by Imamou Lele
2022-05-07 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 990 Washington Avenue, Brookyln, NY, United States
Joins us for a family centered workshop for all ages!
Alexandra Jean-Joseph is an educator, dancer and choreographer. As the Artistic Director of drum and dance ensemble Imamou Lele, she currently produces cultural material and folkloric works of Haiti through traditional dance. As a manbo of Haitian Vodou, she strives to preserve the connection between Haitian Folkloric Dance and Vodou rites and to promote dance as an experience where spirit and art meet. She currently practices with her spiritual family at Le Temple D’Olohoum in Queens, New York. Le Temple D’Olohoumis dedicated to the observance of Vodou in its most religious aspect. It focuses on creating a physical, mental, moral, and spiritual environment for the practice of Vodou.
Sky Menesky is an educator, percussionist, and cultural activist. He currently works as a middle school teacher in Brooklyn, New York while hosting “The Sky Menesky Podcast”. The podcast is a sans-frontiere radio program committed to promoting, defending, and educating Haitians and non-Haitians on the importance of Haiti, and advocating for cultural, economic, and political change in our community here within the diaspora.As the Music Director of drum and dance ensemble Imamou Lele, Sky aims to protect and promote Haiti’s folkloric traditions and continue to preserve Haiti’s cultural heritage through traditional songs and drum rhythms.

Mizik Ayiti! at DRINK LOUNGE featuring DJ Serge Negri
2022-04-28 18:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Drink Lounge, 768 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Mizik Ayiti! featuring Obed Jean-Loui
2022-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 990 Washington Avenue, Brookyln, NY, United States
Free with Garden Admission
Obed Jean-Louisis a singer/songwriter born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His exposure to an array of musical styles permeating the Island such as Rasin (traditional Haitian rhythms) Gospel, Konpa, Reggae, Jazz, and Pop, have inspired his creativity and fueled his desire to express and share his music.In the late 90s, Obedleft Haiti for New York.Shortly after his arrival he found himself in a school of artists and teachers such as Jowee Omicil, Nedelka Prescod, Lisa Harris, Beethova Obas, NY All Stars & the legendary Haitian band Tabou Combo whom he had the privilege of touring & recording with on their “Taboulogy”album. He has also been featured on “Atis Pou Ayiti”, celebrating Haiti’s independence Bicentennial, with artists such as Ralph Tamar and Eddy François. Over the years, Obed is humbled to have graced many of New York’s main stage venues such as Le Poisson Rouge, Joe’s Pub, SOB’s, BAM Café, The Brooklyn Museum, and Bay Street Theater, along with numerous other venues around the Metropolitan area including the Blue Note Jazz Bar,opening for soul songstress Mavis Swann Pool & Soul Understated.
Obed is currently working on the release of his first album, bridging his various musical influences, sharing his story as a Haitian immigrant in “Ladeo Sankofa”, as he tilts, turns, reaches back, and reclaims his musical heritage in a fusion of Creole & English songs, expressing a love of Haitian Culture and the joy of FREEDOM for everyone.
