“Grace and Mercy” added to the DOC NYC Program

A new program has been added to the DOC NYC’s “International Perspectives” section: Grace & Mercy, a feature documentary, showcases the tireless work of Marie Jose Poux, who runs an orphanage,  and her brother, Ben Constant, the “Mayor” of one of the largest tent cities in Port-au-Prince. Combining unprecedented access with cinema-vérité footage, director Luis Peña paints a beautiful portrait of a brother and sister team who dedicated their lives to rebuilding their home country of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

The film is paired with the 22-minute documentary short, The Thing that Happened, about the Hope North Secondary and Vocational School in Northern Uganda. With students who are a mix of former child soldiers, orphans and the abjectly poor,  Hope North struggles on a shoestring budget to provide a home and an education for children displaced by the civil war between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UDPF).

Watch the trailers and buy tickets here.