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SUMMARY: Caribbean Tales 2012 Toronto Showcase & Incubator- Caribbean Reality (Spotlight Haiti)
LOCATION:Harbourfront Centre
URL:http://www.blogto.com/events/62081
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:SHORTS=0ADiaspora Travels: Haiti | a docuvixen film (Canada)=0AQuiet Desper=
ation | Renee Pollonais (Trinidad & Tobago)=0AFEATURE=0ABROKEN STONES | Gue=
tty Felin (Haiti)=0A=0ADescription of the Films=0A=0ADiaspora Travels: Hait=
i | Malinda (Canada) Towards the Second Trip=0AThe Diaspora Travels: Haiti =
explores the possibilities of discovering home and connecting lives to the =
living past. This feature-length documentary begins in Toronto and meanders=
 through Montreal and New York, Boston, and Miami to arrive on the streets =
of Port-au-Prince. Along the way, it offers glimpses of the Haitian diaspor=
a: some of whom, in order to support family, have for years lived between t=
heir adopted and ancestral homes; others who have repatriated since the 201=
0 earthquake and others still who, moved by catastrophe, visit Haiti for th=
e first time.=0A=0AQuiet Desperation | Renee Pollonais (Trinidad & Tobago)=
=0AThis is the story of 58-year-old Heathcliff Defour, a man fast approachi=
ng retirement with a lot of =E2=80=9Cbaggage.=E2=80=9D His life is dull and=
 his marriage unfulfilling. For the past 35 years he has been married to Me=
rlin Defour, a controlling, bitter woman who is critical of everything, esp=
ecially him. While driving Merlin to the market one morning, they begin to =
quarrel. But when Heathcliff finally expresses what is really on his mind, =
he loses more than he is prepared to handle.=0A=0AFEATURE=0ABROKEN STONES |=
 Guetty Felin (Haiti)=0AThe oldest neighborhood of the city of Port-au-Prin=
ce, Quartier Cath=C3=A9drale (Cathedral Quarter) is one of the most symboli=
c in the history of Haiti. It is in this very neighborhood that the city wa=
s founded in 1749 and it is also in the older wooden cathedral where Jean-J=
acques Dessalines was crowned emperor of Haiti in 1804. Cathedral quarter w=
as also the hardest hit by the terrifying earthquake on January 12th 2010, =
it is there that the bulk of the documentary Broken Stones was shot.=0A=0AW=
e invite you to a talk back with the Filmmakers as well as a Panel discussi=
on about using the medium of film to engage and empower communities, and ho=
w it is crucial that communities are able to tell their own stories. =0A=0A=
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