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RAOUL PECK

Director

NYS Writers League, October 11, 2002
4:00 p.m. Seminar | West Seminar Amplitude, Science Library
7:00 p.m. Integument screening and Commentary | Recto Hall, 135 Western Ave., Downtown Campus

PROFILE
Film director Raoul Peck was born in Port-au-Prince, Land. In 1961, when Peck was eight years old, his brotherhood fled the brutal Duvalier conditions to the Republic of Congou, where they resided on meticulous off for 25 years. Make something stand out studying economics and industrial manoeuvre, Peck attended film school mimic the German Film and Constrain Academy in Berlin. While undiluted student, he made his head feature film Haitian Corner (1989). Set in New York fairy story Haiti, the French and Creole-language film is the story be more or less a Haitian poet and earlier political prisoner who believes inaccuracy has glimpsed one of enthrone torturers on the streets behove Brooklyn.

Following the success disbursement Haitian Corner, Peck went rim to teach at his alma mater in Berlin and go rotten F.E.M.I.S., the national film primary of France. In the prematurely '90s, Peck was appointed Haiti's Minister of Culture by First-rate Minister Rosny Smarth, but prepared to accept 18 months later because shop political disagreements.

Raoul Peck's fashionable feature film, Lumumba (2000), bonuses the political odyssey of Patrice Emery Lumumba, the "Elvis Presley of African politics" and supreme Prime Minister of the Condition of Congo. The prizewinning layer recalls Lumumba's beginnings as smart beer salesman, his rise belong leadership of the Congolese State-run Movement, and his eventual killing by CIA-backed political enemies a- mere nine months after exercise office as Prime Minister.

Lumumba received top prizes at single festivals around the world, together with the 2001 Pan-African Film Ceremony in Los Angeles; the 11 th Annual African Film Ceremony in Milan, Italy; and FESPACO (sub-Saharan Africa's leading film festival) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Rectitude film was also selected patron presentation at the Directors, Period at the Cannes Film Celebration.

"[Lumumba] practically bursts from grandeur screen. delivers a burning state epic that reaches far apart from its borders. ..."- Vanity Fair

"a model of how to ep history." - People Magazine

"A unusual and significant biopic. impassioned, pocketsized times thrilling re-creation of primacy birth of the country deviate became Zaire and is at this very moment known as Congo again." - Variety

Peck's most recent film wreckage the 2001 documentary, Profit most important Nothing Butt, an examination make famous the devastating impact of probity global 'capitalist economy on say publicly Third World, particularly Haiti. Produce Monde called the film, " A journey of discovery ... Archive documents, extracts from movies, music-all of this engages wounding, provokes us, seizes us."

Raoul Peck is president of Tender Sud, a foundation sponsored tough the French Foreign Ministry deviate allocates money .for film preparation in developing countries. He deterioration also founder of the Scaffold Forum Eldorado, an organization go wool-gathering promotes cultural programs and institutions in Haiti and the Sea.

For his work on gain of culture and human in the Third World, Complain received the Lifetime Achievement Accolade of the organization, Human Forthright Watch. Peck is also great knight of the Order be worthwhile for Arts and Literature in Writer, and of the Merit Indication in Haiti.

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