Haiti Earthquake - Red Cross Relief Documentary- Inside Disaster

The Haiti Earthquake has generated a mountain of news and information but little in the way of thoughtful documentary coverage has surfaced until now. It takes an inside look at the International Red Cross and its relief effort in Haiti. The Haiti documentary is part of Inside Disaster a documentary series on TVO (TV Ontario, a Canadian Public Broadcaster).

The Inside Disaster team is a crew of media professionals who are following the Red Cross Assessment and Coordination Team (FACT) as the Red Cross delivers aid. They are blogging, photographing and doing a documentary on the story of the Red Cross team, the story of Haiti and Haitians as they struggle to cope in the days, weeks and months to come. 

The Inside Disaster crew will follow the Red Cross for the next six months documenting not just the immediate aftermath of the Haiti earthquake but the the longer-term consequences of the 7.0 earthquake. The Inside Disaster crew will  be there in Haiti long after most of the news cameras are gone - an important fact because it lets the team tell the whole story of the Red Cross relief work, and a more complete nuanced story of Haiti and its people as the re-build from the earthquake. Often in stories like this we see the beginning of the story - stories told by international news organizations who junp on and jump off a story quickly.  

Here is a video for you to check out from  Ste Therese. A camp of about 4000 people, largely self-organized as described and documented by film maker Nico Jolliet.

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Camp St_ Theresa

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