For the first time, the scholarship of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation will be given to an institution rather than an individual. This year’s curator Annie Nocenti has selected the Cine Institute, Haiti.

Based in Jacmel, on Haiti’s southern coast, Ciné Institute began as a film festival. Held for three years, Festival Film Jakmèl showed hundreds of international films free of charge to tens of thousands of Haitians.

Using the power of cinema, integrated educational programming, technical training and media production support, Ciné Institute educates and empowers Haitian youth who seek the creative, technical and business skills necessary to grow local media industries that can provide jobs and spur economic growth needed to improve their lives and the lives of others.

Since January 12, the students of the Cine Institute are using their cameras to document the damage wrought by the earthquake in their town of Jacmel. The Concorde Cinema, home of the Cine Institute, was destroyed earthquake and is currently condemned.  The Katrin Cartlidge Foundation bursary will help the Cine Institute to rebuild its home and continue its inspirational work.

Cine Institute student Keziah Jean will collect the bursary on behalf of her school and her fellow students.  Keziah was selected for this honour because of her short fiction film TAMBOU MARYE (Wedding Drum) and reportage film PINCHINAT, about a refugee camp. Keziah Jean will participate in this year’s Talent Campus.  (source:  Sarajevo Film Festival)

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