Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck’s complex oeuvre includes the films The Man by the Shore (Competition, Cannes Film Festival 1993) Lumumba (Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2000); Sometimes in April (Competition, Berlinale 2005); Moloch Tropical (TIFF 2009, Berlinale 2010) and Murder in Pacot (TIFF 2014, Berlinale 2015).

Raoul Peck was a member of the Berlinale jury in 2002 and of
the Cannes Festival jury in 2012. In 2001, the Human Rights Watch Association awarded him the Irene Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award for his commitment to human rights. In 2021, he is honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from DOC NYC and in 2024, with the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto. In 2017, his documentary on writer James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary and won the Audience Award at the Toronto Festival and the Berlinale.

In 2018, it won the BAFTA and the Cesar for Best Documentary. This film was co-produced with ARTE. His film, The Young Karl Marx, was presented at the Berlinale the same year. Exterminate all the Brutes, is a groundbreaking four-part mini-series, produced for HBO with ARTE, which tells a counter-narrative to Euro-centric history. The mini- series won a Peabody Award in 2022.

His last film, Ernest Cole, Lost and found, was premiered at the Cannes Festival in Séance Spéciale, and won the Oeil d’Or in May 2024. The film is nominated for Best Documentay at the 2025 Cesar. His company Velvet Film was founded in 1989 and operates in the United States, France and Haiti.