Haiti

Born 1953 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Peck lived for a time in Zaire and worked as a journalist and photographer. He later graduated from the Berlin Film Academy in 1988, made a dozen short and features from his Velvet Productions, based in France and Germany, and served until recently as the Minister of Culture of Haiti. A book of screenplays and images from four of Peck's major features and documentary films, called Stolen Images, was published in February 2012 by Seven Stories Press. He has been Chairman of La Fémis, the French state film school, since January 2010. In 2012, he was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. He won the Best Documentary prize at the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival in 2013 for Fatal Assistance. His documentary 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.

Filmography

Legut (1983)
Merry Christmas Deutschland (1984)
Haitian Corner (1988)
Lumumba: Death of the Prophet / Lumumba: La morte du prophéte (1990)
Man By The Shore / L’Homme sur les Quais (1993)
Haiti: Le silence des chiens (1994)
Desounen: Dialogue with Death (1994)
Lumumba (2000)
Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle (2001)
Sometimes in April (2005)
L'école du pouvoir (2009)
Moloch Tropical (2009)
On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! (2010)
Assistance mortelle (2013)
Murder in Pacot (2014)
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
The Young Karl Marx (2017)