Award Winning Haitian Filmmaker Raoul Peck

Peck is known for using historical, political, and personal characters to tackle and recount societal issues and historical events.

Raoul Peck (born 9 September 1953 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a Haitian filmmaker, of both documentary and feature films.[1] 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.

Peck is also the founder of Velvet Film, a film production company in Paris, New York, and Port-au-Prince. He also founded "El Dorado Forum" (Port-au-Prince, Haiti) in 1995, a center that supports the creativity and enrichment of artists.

Peck winning an Award for Excellence