Screenings
boulder, CO Mimesis festival + Fundraiser - 8/7/21
Batay La film director Malia Bruker and producer Sarah Cruz, in conjunction with the Rapid Response Network, invite Coloradans to learn about Batay Ouvriye (Workers Struggle) and the Haitian workers who sew our t-shirts and pandemic masks, their movement to resist exploitation, and their request for international solidarity as they face growing instability exacerbated by gang violence and the recent assasination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise. Batay La screens twice at Mimesis Film Festival along with two other short films in the “Motherese” documentary block. Following the Saturday, August 7th screening, the conversation continues after the screening with “Kenbe Fem,” a social fundraiser for Haitian workers at 7:30pm at Twisted Pine Brewing Company. We’ll cover the bites. You cover your beer. ;)
Translated from Haitian creole, “Kenbe Fem” is to stand firm, to stay strong. Since the filming of Batay La, this phrase takes on new meaning for Batay Ouvriye as they struggle to keep their headquarters open and support workers through this difficult time. While Haiti might feel far removed to some in the US, extreme inequality, corporate power, and societal division have become the norm for American life as well. Find out more about the ways we are connected at the Batay La screening, and join us at the “Kenbe Fem” event after to learn more about the situation in Haiti and how to support Batay Ouvriye.
Friday, August 6, 2021 at 4:15pm – Batay La Screening at Mimesis Documentary Festival
Boedecker Cinema at the Dairy Arts Center - 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302
Tickets available from Mimesis Documentary Festival
Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 5:30pm - Batay La Screening at Mimesis Documentary Festival
Grace Gamm Theater at the Dairy Arts Center - 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302
Tickets available from Mimesis Documentary Festival
Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 7:30pm – Kenbe Fem Solidarity event
Twisted Pine Brewing Company - 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, CO 80301
FREE and open to the public
Appetizers on us! Please RSVP to let us know you’re coming!
ONLINE SCREENING - 5/14/2020
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE - 3/17-18/2020 (postponed)
Director Malia Bruker and Batay Ouvriye member invited to screen Batay La in 6 courses at Middlebury College, as well as a public screening.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY - 3/16/2020 (postponed)
Director Malia Bruker to show selection of films, including Batay La, to Special Topics Photography Clas
TALLAHASSEE, FL - 2/20/2020
“From Katrina to Michael: Disaster in the 21st-century Circum-Caribbean”
Batay La was screened at the Katrina to Michael conference hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University.
“To mark the 10-year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake, this conference proposes a regional approach to disaster that seeks to draw connections between 21st-century experiences of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, including the south-east U.S. and North Florida post-Michael.
This comparative, regional perspective will allow us to consider, for example, how different forms of disaster capitalism encourage replacement of populations, displacing people who have longer histories in place with others who will have temporary and surface relationships to that place, transforming them into sites of skimming visitation.”
MIAMI, FL - 2/8/2020
Batay La at Third Horizon Film Festival!
After the film, the conversation continues at The Caribbean Marketplace with Batay Ouvriye organizer, Yannicke Etienne, in from Port Au Prince, Haiti; Director, Malia Bruker from Florida State University; and Producer/Organizer, Sarah Cruz from One Struggle Miami. The discussion centers on social/political organization, independence and movement.
Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 11am – Batay La Screening in “Dateline Caribbean.”
Little Haiti Cultural Center - 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami, FL 33137
$13 admission (Includes screening of four short documentaries, including Batay La)
Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 1:15pm – Movement Building: Lessons from Haiti & Batay Ouvriye
The Caribbean Marketplace - 5925 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33137
FREE and open to the public
TALLAHASSEE, FL - 11/23/2019
Join us for the first community screening of Batay La on Saturday, November 23.
The conversation continues with a follow up event, “Resisting Imperialism” on Sunday, November 24.
Click here to RSVP here for Nov 23 screening.
Click here to RSVP here for Nov 24 “Resisting Imperialism” event.
To book a screening of the film at your school or organization, please contact BatayLa.info@gmail.com.