Sun City Picture House Debuts at Tribeca
After many of the few functioning movie theaters were destroyed by the earthquake, David Darg and fellow aid workers, decided to build a new one, the Sun City Picture House, atop a hill in Cite Soleil.
Darg and Mooser have made fund-raising videos before but this time they would document the construction and function of the picture house, in the form of a film. Actress Olivia Wilde became a part of the project as well as videographers from the CINE Institute in Haiti.
With the help from people in the community the building was constructed in 5 days and operates showing a line up of top films from the U.S. and around the world.
To celebrate Sun City Picture House’s debut at the Tribeca Film Festival Darg, Mooser and Wilde came out to further support their short documentary and in this interview by Cinema Blend (left).
Synopsis by TriBeca:After watching the last of the old colonial movie theaters destroyed in the earthquake, a young Haitian man enlists the help of a priest and two young aid workers to build Haiti's only movie theater on a hill above a tent city. This is the joyful and moving story of a community torn apart by disaster then united in a singular vision.
Source: Sun City Picture House , Cinema Blend , Tribeca Film
