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NEWS: June 2012: Northside Festival
The Other Side of the Water is closing out the Northside Festival in Brooklyn, followed by a closing-night party with performance by none other than DJA-Rara September
2011: DVD Available on Amazon At last, our official DVD is available for sale on Amazon.com. The disk features the broadcast version of the documentary, plus tons of extra scenes, ground-shaking rara performances, and a mini-doc on the band's trip to the Obama inauguration in Washington D.C.
May
2011: Third World Newsreel
April
2011: THE CREOLE CONNECTION
The band and film are back from an amazing trip
to New Orleans for the Festival
International De Lousiane (in Lafayette) and the New
Orleans Jazz Fest. It was a whilrwind four days of screenings,
parades, and cross-cultural jams. The
National Geographic travel blog picked DJA-Rara as one
of the highlights of the festival. See some great photos and
press coverage HERE
and HERE.
January 2011: Public Television Broadcast
The Other Side of the Water's broadcast premiere on Public Televison's World Channel was January 12, 2011, and it is being broadcst throughout 2011. It is this opening episode of the series "Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange", and will be preceded by the short doc "Haiti: One Day, One Destiny" by Michele Stephenson. Find schedules and your local stations HERE
2010 Year in Review: a selection of some joyous moments from a very difficult year. January: Release Party with Alan Lomax Archive
January 12 - Earthquake:
Photos of bandmember Lesly Jean Marie's house- and flowers where his nephew lies burried
1.24.10 Horns for Haiti Benefit
2.6.10 Brooklyn Museum of Art
More video clips HERE 2.12.10 Downtown Community Television screening
3.12.10 French Alliance "Haiti Cherie" Benefit
7.29.10
9.7.10
9.22-9.27.10
10.11.10
10.31.10
Thank you to everyone who came out this past year to support the band and the film - and more importantly to show love and support for Haitian culture. We hope that energy and focus can continue through Haiti's long rebuilding process. -Jeremy and Magi
2009 HighlightsRead Sasha Frere-Jones recent round table discussion in the NEW YORKER MAGAZINE about rara music, featuring Edwidge Danticat 11/24/09 "Cultures on Parade" at the New School
"Cultures on Parade" was a special screening and discussion on at the New School featuring "The Other Side of the Water" and "Play Mas" by Michelle Stephenson. Info here: http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=36435
9/7/09 Return to BAM
On Labor Day, September 7th, we returned to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It was a wonderful day of screenings, which we attended while running back and forth to the Eastern Parkway Carnival. Thanks to the Creatively Speaking series and everyone who came out! September Screenings: *September
17th and 28th Trinidad
& Tobago Film Fest
7/12/09
Screening
at the Caribbean Tales Film Festival 6/6/09
Screening at The Hollywood Black Film Festival _________ 5/09 "The Haitian Rara Experience" in Miami From May 21st-24th Miami hosted "The Haitian Rara Experience": a 4-day festival of film screenings, workshops, parties, and music events. The main event was the Theatrical Premiere of "The Other Side of the Water" at the historic Colony Theatre on Miami Beach, followed by a live performance of Brooklyn's DJARARA. Thanks to our presenting partners: Miami Light Project, the Backyard Movement, Change Charity, Inc., Moksha Family, and HaitiXchange.com.
(Click
for larger image) 1/09 Obama Trip Special Series
12/08 Re-Launching Educational Workshops:
This year we're re-launching our educational programs in high schools and universities. Over the past few years the filmmakers and the musicians of DJARARA have teamed up to create workshops, presentations, and cultural events across the country. We toured NYC high schools through Carnegie Hall's educational program (photos here), presented to musicology and sociology classes from Amherst to Bard College to Connecticut College, and worked with Haitian Student Associations at schools including Columbia University and SUNY Binghamton. If you're interested in finding out more or hosting an educational event, contact us at othersideofthewater@gmail.com _________ 9/08
Festival Premiere at Urbanworld Film Festival - September 12th, 2008. "The Other Side of the Water" was proud to be a part of the 12th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival in NYC - presented by BET and HBO. Stay tuned for information on our upcoming festivals and theatrical premiere in NYC slated for February 2009. Thanks also toHaitiXchange.com, Brooklyn Papers, heritagekompa.com, Caribbean Life newspaper, this Prospect Park Blog as well as Radio Soleil and Radio Pa Nou for the great shout-outs. _________ 8/08 Sneak Preview at Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM Rose Cinema. Afterparty featuring DJARARA and Master Drummer Fritzner Augustine - August 28th, 2008. Click HERE for link to BAM page...
Thanks also to HaitiXchange.com,
Brooklyn
Papers, this Prospect
Park Blog as well as Radio
Soleil and Radio
Pa Nou for the great shout-outs _________ 1/08: We've finally picture-locked the documentary! The Other Side of the Water is now in the finishing stages and we're excited to be working with graphic arist Ben Fine (visual effects editor for Oscar Nominated "Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room") and sound mixer Anne Pope (sound editor for Oscar winner "Born into Brothels"). Stay tuned for our launch this spring and summer... _________ 7/07 The Backyard Show comes to Brooklyn
Host Nati Dred of The Backyard Show with DJA-Rara [photo: Johny Jacques] In July a crew from The Backyard Show flew up from Miami to New York and taped two shows on Haitian roots culture in Brooklyn. The first show focused on DJA-Rara and our documentary, the second on other Haitian roots musicians. The Backyard Show is an great new arts and culture talk show that’s making a lot of noise in Miami [Look up their recent article in Miami Herald or link to their site here]. It was a hectic but fun taping – with a live audience and all! Five Myles art gallery provided the space, HaitiXchange came by, as well as come great artists and Brooklyn culture heads. Check out pics here, and the show should be up on the Backyard website in a few weeks… _________ 4/07 Clips from doc being shown at Brooklyn Historical Society:
photo:Delphine A. Fawundu-Buford _________ 4/07
Short-film in Festivals: September
07: Women in Film LA - evening of Haitian Filmmaking
http://www.soleilfilms.com _________
3/07
Recent Screenings and Presentations at Universities: April
07: Connecticut College _________
2/07:
BAND
NEWS: _________ 4/06 Through the Carnegie Hall Global Encounters Program The Other Side of the Water and DJA-Rara visit high school classrooms in Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Manhattan. We screened clips from the documentary, talked about the history of rara, and taught students to play drums and kone horns. SEE PHOTOS HERE. April 28th, 2006: Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concert Series presents a screening of 10 minutes from Other Side of the Water and a performance by DJA-Rara at CUNY's Caribbean Studies Center. SEE PHOTOS HERE. _________ 1/06: Kurt Engfehr joins team as Consulting Editor. Kurt Engfehr was editor and co-producer of “Bowling for Columbine” and “Fahrenheit 911.” He was awarded the American Cinema Editor’s award for best documentary editing in 2002 for his work on Bowling for Columbine, and we’re excited to have him on board.
PAST WORK-IN-PROGRESS SREENINGS April 28th, 2006: Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concert Series- screening with performance by DJA-Rara at CUNY Caribbean Studies Center February 21st 2006: Rough-cut screening at Brooklyn Public Library's "Documenting Brooklyn" series. September 1st and 2nd, 2005: Work-in-Progress screening at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Caribbean Diaspora Film Festival December 2nd 2006: WIP at "Homegrown" community film event sponsored by the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association February 28th, 2005: Presentation at the Community School for Social Justice, Bronx, NY
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