In The Seats With...Emanuel Licha and 'Zo Reken'

It's so important to get an accurate sense of what's going on in some places in the world... Time for more Hot Doc coverage which kicks off this April 29th and on this episode we talk with filmmaker Emanuel Licha about his stunning film 'Zo Reken'/ Today, 11 years after the massive earthquake in Haiti that left over a million people homeless and killed hundreds of thousands, the country has still not recovered from the disaster. Despite billions of dollars in aid money, Haiti struggles with some of the highest levels of poverty and unemployment in the Western hemisphere. Port-Au-Prince is a city that is seemingly in a constant state of crisis but this film manages to navigate around demonstrations and barricades to make a space for the people to speak candidly about the grim realties they encounter on a daily basis all these years later. We talked with Emanuel about the inspiration for the film, the meaning of the 'Zo Reken' and so very much more...