clarivelruiz
clarivelruiz
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Clarivel Ruiz is first generation person from the Island of Kiskeya Ayiti and a long-time media educator, writer, and producer.
In 2016 Dominicans Love Haitians Movement was initiated as a continuation of understanding racism by using historical performance, sound bits, poetry, and music to create a participatory performance piece. The work centers around immigration, colonization, and other issues facing Dominicans of Haitian descent who have been deported from the Dominican Republic.
Previously, Clarivel produced Gimme Five: History of the Handshake a documentary directed and produced with Michael Paul Britto that discuss the reasons behind the creation of intricate hand gestures by African American and other peoples.
She is a quarter-finalist in the Nicholls Fellowship in Screenwriting and semi-finalist of the Sundance Screenwriter’s Workshop for the feature script 4 Parts and the Fade In Screenwriter’s Competition for her short script Grey.
While Director of Pro-TV at Downtown Community Television Center, she empowered youth through the creation of their own media, but also rallied against gun violence in the United States by supporting the Emmy award winning and Sundance Film Festival Jury award winning documentary, Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story through community screenings and workshops in New York City and New Haven, Connecticut. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Rita, Clarivel, as part of an educational team, encouraged four young women to tell the story of New Orleans’, Not As Seen On TV-- a youth-based documentary illustrating New Orleans residents uniting through the arts to overcome the storm's displacement of its citizens. Clarivel supported the production of Talkin’ Water that tells the story of how the destruction and documentation of New Orleans has impacted these four young women’s lives. Not As Seen on TV, as part of the Soros Foundation website on New Orleans, won a Webby Award.
In 1999, she received her Master’s in Fine Arts from the City College University of New York.
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