Raoul Peck
FILMS IN CATALOGUE
BIOGRAPHY
Raoul Peck is a director, screenwriter and producer. Born in Haiti, he was raised in Congo, in the US and in France. He then studied Economic Engineering at the TU Berlin and the DFFB Berlin.
Peck served as Haiti’s Minister of Culture in 1996 and 1997, and since 2010 he has been the president of La Fémis in Paris, the famous film and television school. In 2001, the Human Rights Watch Organization awarded him with the Irene Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award. He served as jury member at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, as well as jury member at the Berlinale in 2002.
Selected Filmography
2017 The Young Karl Marx
2016 I Am Not Your Negro, documentary – 2017 Oscar® nominee, Toronto IFF People’s Choice Best Documentary, selected at the 2017 Berlinale Panorama.
2014 Murder in Pacot [Meurtre à Pacot] – Toronto IFF 2014
2013 Fatal Assistance [Assistance mortelle], documentary – Berlinale 2013
2009 Moloch Tropical – Toronto IFF 2009 and Berlinale 2010
L’école du pouvoir, a Canal+ film
2006 L’affaire Villemin, a ARTE-France 3 series
2005 Sometimes in April, a HBO series – AFI TV Program of the Year 2006, Berlinale 2005
2000 Lumumba – Cannes 2000
1994 Desounen: Dialogue with Death, documentary
1993 The Man on the Shore [L’homme sur les quais] – Cannes 1993
1990 Lumumba: Death of a Prophet, documentary
1988 Haitian Corner – Locarno Special Mention 1988