ben stiller by Ali Berman Categories: Causes, Film/TV, People
Tags: . Photo: s_bukley /  Since 2010 actor Ben Stiller has been
working on the ground in Haiti to build schools to give children
access to education through his foundation. Last night,
Stiller’s interest in education and his love of making films
collided.  The actor joined the Ciné Institute, Haiti’s only
film school, on stage at the Jacob Burns Film Center to discuss
why film education is so important, not just for the sake of
jobs, but in order to give people a way to tell their stories.
I was lucky enough to be in the audience to watch two of the
films that came from first year students in the program and
listen to the Q&A with Ben Stiller, Jonathan Demme, and Ciné
Institute founder David Belle.  The Ciné Institute started as a
one-time film festival that was so successful, it became an
annual event. Through the festival, they found that interest in
film, especially Haitian film, was so strong that what began as
a few workshops by visiting fil