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Filmakers Library Discount: Two Films Regarding Current Situation in Haiti

FIlmakers Library has two superb films that provide background to the current situation in Haiti:

CHILDREN OF SHADOWS and HUMAN RIGHTS IN HAITI

We offer a 10% discount on each of them, through April 1, 2004. If you buy both, you will receive a 15% discount.

CHILDREN OF SHADOWS

A film by Karen Kramer.

In Haiti, many parents are forced by destitution and desperation to give away their children. The children - who may be as young as four years old - then go to live and work for other families as unpaid domestic servants, or slaves. They are known as restavek children.

Narrated entirely by the people themselves in their native Creole (English subtitles) and with original Haitian music laced throughout the film, this affecting documentary is the first film to be made on a subject which until recently has never been talked about.

Vues d'Afrique, 2002
Best Human Rights Documentary, Barcelona, 2002
International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam, 2001

54 min. Video. Sale $350. Rental $75.

HUMAN RIGHTS IN HAITI

Produced by Isabelle Abric for United Nations/OAS.

As dramatic events are occurring in Haiti, this film provides valuable historical background. In a masterful blend of exclusive historical footage, interviews, and artwork, it takes viewers through the history of the Haitian people and their struggle for their rights. A slave revolt in 1791 and a second war against colonialFrance led to Haiti becoming the first independent black republic in 1804. After suffering under tyrants for decades, most recently the infamous Duvalier (Papa Doc) and his son, the Haitians finally elected Jean Bertrand Aristide, a reformer.
Haiti's troubles continued when the military overthrew Aristide, although he later returned.

Silver Medal, Chicago International Film Festival, 1999

56 min. Video. Sale. $350. Rent $75.