Haiti: Haitian filmmaker shows "Journey of Hope"

'I was shooting my first film ever, standing on top of a house filming kids playing football when the earth started shaking and the house crumbled underneath me,' said 27-year old filmmaker Massena Cesar, recalling that day of profound sorrow when a massive earthquake rocked Haiti, killing over 200,000 people on 12 January, 2010.

Two years later, Cesar and four other recently graduated filmmakers from Cine Institute-Haiti's only professional film academy based in the southern coastal town of Jacmel-embarked on an eight-day journey across Haiti to show the reconstruction efforts through their own lenses. The 20-minute 'road movie' 'Haiti Rebuilds: A Journey of Hope' was co-produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with award-winning documentary filmmaker Jonathan Stack as mentor director.