Reel Harlem Film Festival: “The Other Side of the Water”

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When:Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Time:7:30 p.m.
Where:St Nicholas Park
135th Street Lawn
West 135th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue
Manhattan, NY
Cost:Free

Join The Historic Harlem Parks Coalition fo the 9th Annual Reel Harlem Free Outdoor Film Festival. Tonight they will be hosting a live performance of DJARARA followed by a Free Screening of The Other Side of the Water.

Music: DJARARA, Haitian Rara band (7:30 p.m.)

Film: The Other Side of the Water (8:30 p.m.) (Jeremy Robbins and Magali Damas, USA, 72 min.)
The Other Side of the Water follows a group of young immigrants who take an ancient music from the hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn. The journey of this unlikely band offers a unique insight into the Haitian-American experience — a rare glimpse into a world of music, spirituality, and cultural activism. Part-carnival, part-vodou ceremony, and grassroots protest, “Rara” is one of the most breathtaking and contested forms of music in the Americas. Rara originally served as a voice of the slaves in their revolt against the French, and as the voice of those struggling against ongoing dictatorships in Haiti. This documentary follows the journey of DJARARA – the only sustained rara band in America – through a hidden New York landscape of vodou temples, underground economies, violent politics, and ground-shaking music.

Co-presented by the ImageNation Cinema Foundation

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