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Mirebalais , Haiti youth filmmaking learning center

provide opportunities for low-income Haitian youth to further develop their creative skills and talents in arts

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Mirebalais , Haiti youth filmmaking learning center

Mirebalais , Haiti youth filmmaking learning center

Mirebalais , Haiti youth filmmaking learning center

Mirebalais , Haiti youth filmmaking learning center

Mirebalais , Haiti youth filmmaking learning center

provide opportunities for low-income Haitian youth to further develop their creative skills and talents in arts

provide opportunities for low-income Haitian youth to further develop their creative skills and talents in arts

provide opportunities for low-income Haitian youth to further develop their creative skills and talents in arts

provide opportunities for low-income Haitian youth to further develop their creative skills and talents in arts

Hans Patrick Domercant
Hans Patrick Domercant
Hans Patrick Domercant
Hans Patrick Domercant
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Mirebalais, Haiti
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The post-Haitian earthquake period is a challenging time for the youth and young adults in every Haitian community. The Mirebalais Youth Filmmaking Learning Center is being developed to address some of the issues being experienced by the poor youth and young adults in the Mirebalais community in Haiti. There is a fertile and active community of videographers and filmmakers in Mirebalais, who have numerous needs that cannot be addressed  by existing organizations in the community.

 

Cultural programming can be a powerful tool to help young people make sense of the challenges they face; meaningful experiences in the arts, humanities and sciences can help foster positive growth that is essential to becoming a successful adult.

Program Goals

1.      To help the youth of Mirebalais increase their creative skills and talent in arts  

2.      To improve the general academic performance of children, youth and young adults in the Mirebalais community in Haiti

3.      To increase opportunities for youth to use their skills  for the good of the general public, for profit and/or non-profit.

4.      To teach children and youth about filmmaking and the film industry and how to market their finished products.

5.      To enable Mirebalais youth and children to achieve a school attendance rate of at least 92%.

6.      To empower low-income, at-risk youth to work as a team to learn about movie making,  including learning about the process of developing concepts, and planning, directing and producing documentary and feature films. MPAH’s “Video and Filmmaking Learning Center for Youth in Boston” program recognizes the fact that the key to performance is experiencing success and that success is always a motivator—Many children and youth are natural movie lovers and are motivated by this to experience all phases of filmmaking, including learning how to create their own films.

Program Objectives

1.         Pre-Production

Low-income, at-risk youth will learn all the theoretical information needed prior to starting a video or film project:  how to create a budget, do a script breakdown and create strip boards, develop a production schedule and shooting schedule, find crew, scout locations etc…

 2.        Camera, audio and lighting technique        
Youth participating in the program will know how to use the camera, including setting up or configuring the camera to get the best possible shot. They will learn how to set up the lighting for documentary interviews and for feature films.

3.         Directing technique
             Youth participating in the program will learn how to turn a script into a film.  For example, they will know how to direct the actors to get the best out of them; how to shoot a variety of types of scenes, including slow motion scenes and comedy scenes;how to develop small character roles; how to balance a scene, etc.

4.         Acting technique
            Youth participating in the program will learn about various  techniques that can lead talented individuals to become great actors.   

5.         Production

Youth will learn how to step into production:  They will know how to approve a Script Lighting Diagram Shooting Schedule, Budget Breakdown.

 

6.         Post-Production

Youth participating in the program will know how to turn individual scenes ( “raw footage”)  into a finished motion picture. They will know how to use the best non-linear editing software to edit a movie. Students will also learn to work as “composers” to add background video and filmmaking to create dramatic or comical effects. They will learn to work as part of a “special effect team” to add computer-generated images and backgrounds to enhance the set or provide an as-yet-unseen character. Students will also learn how to fix mistakes not corrected during principal shooting.

 

The Impact

Low-income, at-risk, disadvantaged youth will be able to direct and produce their own documentary film and feature.

However, the Mirebalais youth filmmaking learning center will

  • Helps to improve and enhance Intellectual and Emotional Intelligences of the disadvantaged youth, the two factors that lead to Success.
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  • For the youth the “video and filmmaking learning center” will improve their organizing & higher order skills, creativity, self-assessment, flexible thinking, and toleration of ambiguity.

 

  • As for the components of Emotional Intelligence, These video and filmmaking classes will have a positive effect on all of them: Self-awareness, Mood Management, Self-motivation, Impulse Control, and People Skills. They will learn to identify their emotions, to use them appropriately and escape foul moods, they will learn to work with an intrinsic motivation that follows their feelings of accomplishment and success, they will manage to regulate their emotions and impose self-discipline, and, finally, they acquire empathy and warmth.

 

  • They will become visually literate and expressive at a level consistent with their

Intellectual, emotional and physical development. To reach their potential for     visual expression, students:


The Motion Picture Association of Haiti, Inc. (MPAH) is seeking funding to support the implementation of our Mirebalais Youth Filmmaking Learning Center. This grant will be used as general operating support to aid our efforts to diversify and deliver video programming instruction and production to the youth in Mirebalais, Haiti and by assisting local independent filmmakers through our wide range of services.


This fund will be used to help purchase video equipments and lighting sets.

Other Ways You Can Help

You can also donate Used Video equipment or Computers to our cause


We are looking for Mac computers or PCs in good working condition with these minimum specifications:
•    Processor: 1 GHz
•    Memory: 512 GB
•    Hard Drive: 40 GB


If you’re interested in donating a computer that meets these specifications or a video camera , please send us an email at contact@mpah.org or fill out this form at http://www.mpahaiti.org/node/38. We’ll put that computer or video camera to good use, and you can receive a tax deduction!


1.    Motion Picture Association of Haiti, Inc is an all-volunteer non-profit.
2.    Donations to the Motion Picture Association of Haiti, Inc, no matter how small,
will make a BIG difference.


Other Ways to Donate
Donate Time
Volunteer either at our studio/office or from your home. We are in constant need of help with our administrative, outreach, and even production efforts

Donate Books
Contact us to make a tax-exempt Books donation.

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