23 February 2010 Haitian film students share video of earthquake aftermath at college visit

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
BY ALLISON PRIES
The Bergen Record

MAHWAH – Four film students from Haiti’s Cine Institute shared footage at Ramapo College on Wednesday of Jacmel, their home city, captured during and after the earthquake in a presentation.

The sometimes shaky videos showed stunned people milling in the street surrounded by fallen buildings. Motorbikes zoom, horns honking, through the streets. Three people help a gray-haired man crawl out from a collapsed building. Another man stands dead — pinned at the shoulder between two massive sections of a building.

The students’ videos have aired all over the world on news programs, bringing to light the suffering in Jacmel, located two hours from Port-au-Prince.

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