Raoul Peck Director, Screenwriter

Raoul Peck is the former Minister of Culture to Haiti. His films have been hailed internationally at prestigious festivals such as Cannes (in competition), FESPACO, San Sebastian, and the Berlin International Film Festival. Following the 1992 release of Lumumba–Death of a Prophet, Peck won four Best Documentary festival awards. His 1993 release, The Man By The Shore, won two Best Drama awards. His works have been featured in over thirty festivals, with television broadcasts and theatrical releases in the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and Canada.

Peck was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He began his career in industrial engineering before attending film school at the University of Berlin. He received a M.F.A. in Film at the Berlin Film & Television Academy in 1988. Mr. Peck has taught at the France National Film School, the Berlin Film and Television Academy and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He is the President of Velvet Film GmbH, President of Caribbean Federation of Film & Video, and a member of the French Authors/ Directors/Producers' Guild (ARP). Peck is fluent in English, French and German, and can conduct lectures in any of these languages.

Filmography:
Lumumba (feature/drama/2000) US Distributor
Corps Plangés (Work in progress-1995)
Desounen, Dialogue With Death (52 min./1994)
Haiti, The Silence Of The Dogs (52 min./1994)
The Man By The Shore (105 min./1993)
Lumumba–Death Of A Prophet (67 min./1991)
Haitian Corner (16mm/98 min./1989)

Lecture Topics:
Raoul Peck's Latest Film: "Lumumba"
Directing; Screenwriting; European Cinema; Carribean Cinema; African Cinema; Haitian Cinema; Politics & Cultue; Cinema & Human Rights Issues