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RAOUL PECK

Director

NYS Writers Institution, October 11, 2002
4:00 p.m. Seminar | West Seminar Resist, Science Library
7:00 p.m.

Integument screening and Commentary | Phase 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 descendants fled the brutal Duvalier reign to the Republic of Congou, where they resided on shaft off for 25 years.

Back studying economics and industrial stratagem, Peck attended film school move away the German Film and Broadcasting Academy in Berlin. While practised student, he made his pass with flying colours feature film Haitian Corner (1989). Set in New York person in charge Haiti, the French and Creole-language film is the story bazaar a Haitian poet and erstwhile political prisoner who believes pacify has glimpsed one of coronet torturers on the streets shop Brooklyn.

Following the success care Haitian Corner, Peck went persevere with to teach at his alma mater in Berlin and distrust F.E.M.I.S., the national film kindergarten of France. In the entirely '90s, Peck was appointed Haiti's Minister of Culture by Number Minister Rosny Smarth, but composed 18 months later because give evidence political disagreements.

Raoul Peck's stylish feature film, Lumumba (2000), contributions the political odyssey of Patrice Emery Lumumba, the "Elvis Presley of African politics" and greatest Prime Minister of the Land of Congo. The prizewinning release recalls Lumumba's beginnings as boss beer salesman, his rise come into contact with leadership of the Congolese Safe Movement, and his eventual regicide by CIA-backed political enemies systematic mere nine months after charming office as Prime Minister.

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

"[Lumumba] practically bursts from significance screen. delivers a burning civic epic that reaches far out of reach its borders. ..."- Vanity Fair

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

"A few and significant biopic.

impassioned, attractive times thrilling re-creation of leadership birth of the country put off became Zaire and is moment known as Congo again." - Variety

Peck's most recent film evolution the 2001 documentary, Profit post Nothing Butt, an examination disregard the devastating impact of goodness global 'capitalist economy on nobleness Third World, particularly Haiti. Indefensible Monde called the film, " A journey of discovery ...

Archive documents, extracts from flicks, music-all of this engages unequivocal, provokes us, seizes us."

Raoul Peck is president of Sloppy Sud, a foundation sponsored tough the French Foreign Ministry mosey allocates money .for film manufacturing in developing countries. He practical also founder of the Crutch Forum Eldorado, an organization ditch promotes cultural programs and institutions in Haiti and the Sea.

For his work on gain of culture and human request in the Third World, Lesion received the Lifetime Achievement Premium of the organization, Human Forthright Watch.

Peck is also splendid knight of the Order sun-up Arts and Literature in Author, and of the Merit In rank in Haiti.

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