The country's situation is so serious that "the biggest problem is to be alive," says Camille Etienne, one of the protagonists of Dreams Hati, Acca Media documentary directed by Miguel Angel Tobias, who house America today with the first anniversary the terrible earthquake that devastated the country.The presentation to the press was in charge of Haiti's ambassador in Spain, Yolette Azor-Charles, the film's director, Miguel Angel Tobias, and Maria del Carmen Bazarre, a nun of the Daughters of Charity. Dreams of Haiti is the first Spanish film shot in that country after the tragedy, the January 12, 2010 claimed the lives of 230,000 Haitians devastated the country and destroyed 85% of its capital, Port au Prince.
It was recorded a month after the disaster. Seeks to give voice to the movers and shakers of the tragedy, but it is a charity project, because the premiere producer American Home aims to raise funds to assist the Daughters of Charity in Haiti, an order which has more than 30 years working in the country to build an orphanage which will house 50 girls.
A year after the earthquake, considered one of the most serious humanitarian disasters in recent history, Haiti is making headlines by disasters: Hurricane Thomas, the cholera epidemic that has killed 1,500 people, the electoral defeat ... In the past year has retired only 10% of the debris and more than a million people remain in the street.
Miguel Angel Tobias said yesterday at the headquarters of the Ibero-American Secretariat, one of the objectives of their work is that the Haitians were the protagonists. "Until then it had been cooperating and politicians," but had to put name to those faces desperate. Faith, courage, fighting ability, instinct of survival ...
"We avoid the sensationalism that in such situations would be easy, out of respect for the dignity of the Haitian people." Dignity is a word repeated during the presentation. Maria del Carmen Bazarre uses insistently. Arrived in Haiti on February 4, 2010, just three weeks after the earthquake.
"I Haiti in the heart," she said excitedly. "Remember, do not forget because in Haiti needs to be done." The protagonists of the documentary smile all the time: Camille Etienne, an architect of 33 years who came to Haiti a day before the earthquake. He could have stayed in Spain, but has decided that her place is at home, or Chantalle Jean Louis, a nursing student in the Dominican Republic decided to return to help his family and now works as a volunteer in a hospital.
O Jackson, a welder who sends what little gains to his family in the Dominican Republic, which insists that the Haitian mentality has to change for things to change. During the visit to Delmas 32, the district nurse Chantalle, totally destroyed, people see the world go by, "What are you doing here?" No work, no schools, no nothing, just to sleep and wait ".
Another of the players is Cesar Claros, Fire in Action volunteer who works in Leogane, the epicenter of the earthquake. "One in ten people of this city died" or Natalí Sister, Daughter of Charity who live in Haiti for 19 years. He ran a school where they fed and educated more than a thousand children.
When asked if God has forgotten about Haiti, it replies with a not immediate. It simply says that these situations closer to God. None of the players doubt what his place in the world: Haiti. Etienne concludes, "as Haiti should I become a dreamer who dreams the entire nation with a common dream."
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