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African Film Festival, Inc. & Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Present:

BROKEN STONES* (Special Preview Screening)

Guetty Felin, Haiti/France/US, 2012, 61 min.

The oldest neighborhood of the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Quartier Cathédrale (Catheral Quarter) was the most devastated sector in the city, it is also where the bulk of the documentary Broken Stones was shot. With its erected columns and open air, the ruins of the cathedral resembles an amphitheater where the daily realities of Haitian life unfolds. Amidst the vestige of what was once the most beautiful cathedrals in the entire Caribbean, children play, women pray, some carry pails and jugs of water from the nearby tap, a white man dressed in black hooded priest garb appears out of nowhere, followed by a cameraman, foreign missionaries snap pictures as they pray for lost souls in a house of worship, men and women roam almost aimlessly in this post-apocalyptic decor…These images are amongst the impressionist moments interwoven into the narrative fabric of this captivating documentary.



*Panel discussion with the filmmaker and guest panelists will follow the screening.



ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and raised in New York, Guetty Felin is an award-winning, independent filmmaker, teacher and film curator.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For more information about the series, visit - www.africanfilmny.org