Personality · Politics & public life · Film & stage
Screenwriter · Politician · Audio engineer · Cinematographer · Filmmaker · Human rights defender
📍 Birthplace Port-au-Prince, Ouest
🎂 Birthday September 9
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Raoul Peck is a Haitian filmmaker and director. He is known for using historical, political, and personal characters to tackle and recount societal issues and historical events. Peck was Haiti's Minister of Culture from 1996 to September 1997. His film I Am Not Your Negro (2016), about the life of James Baldwin and race relations in the United States, was nominated for an Oscar in January 2017 and won a César Award in France. Peck's HBO documentary miniseries, Exterminate All the Brutes (2021), received a Peabody Award.
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Offices held
- 1996 – 1997minister of culture
- 2009président de La Femis
Career
- 2000LumumbaWork
- 2016I Am Not Your NegroWork
- 2017The Young Karl MarxWork
- 2018César Award for Best Documentary FilmDistinction
Distinctions
- 2018César Award for Best Documentary Film
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Places
- Birthplace
- Port-au-Prince, Ouest
- Languages
- French, German, English, Haitian Creole
Official links and sources
Information from
- Wikidata, Q1357018 (CC0)
- Photo: Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Covers: Open Library and Cover Art Archive, where available; other titles are shown without their cover.