Catch the US premier of Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck’s Fatal Assistance at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival of New York!
Award-winning Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a two-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory, and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti. Through its provocative and radical point of view, Fatal Assistance offers a devastating indictment of the international community’s post-disaster idealism. The film dives headlong into the complexity of the reconstruction process and the practice and impact of worldwide humanitarian and development aid, revealing the disturbing extent of a general failure. We learn that a major portion of the money pledged to Haiti was never disbursed, nor made it into the actual reconstruction. Fatal Assistance leads us to one clear conclusion: current aid policies and practices in Haiti need to stop immediately.Official Selection Berlin Film Festival 2013
Showings:
June 19, 2013 6:30 PM / Film Society of Lincoln Center Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Google Map
June 20, 2013
7:00 PM / IFC Center
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