RAOUL PECK
Internationally Renown Filmmaker (Writer, Producer, Director); Economist; Development Policy Expert (With extensive research on Haiti and Congo)
22 January 2015 5:00 PM
the Student Life Center
Raoul Peck was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was educated in Haiti, Zaire (Congo), the United States, France and Germany. His parents fled the Duvalier dictatorship in 1991, finding asylum and a new life in the Republic of Congo, which became their second home for nearly twenty-five years. Peck initially attended school in Leopoldville, later public school in Brooklyn, New York, and finally Orleans, France. He lived for an extended time in Zaïre and Germany and studied industrial engineering and economics at Berlin University. He started a Ph.D. in Development Strategies, which he chose to abandon after two years following the sudden death of his doctorate mentor. He was accepted into the competitive film program at The Berlin Germany Academy of Film, where he received a degree 1984. Peck has worked as a journalist and photographer and film professor. He currently resides between France, Haïti and New York.
- Former professor at the Berlin Film and Television Academy, at the F.E.M.I.S. (France's National Film School)
- Former professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (1994-1995)
- Former Minister of Culture - Haïti (Of Prime Minister Rosny Smarth after the restoration of democratic rule in Haïti)
- Président of the Board of Directors of La F.E.M.I.S (since 2010 to present)
Raoul Peck has created a complex body of work from documentary (Profit and nothing but!) to mini-series (The Villemin case, The School of Power). Among his narratives: The Man by the Shore (Cannes competition 1993); Lumumba (Director’s Fortnight 2000); He produced and directed Sometimes in April for HBO (2005) on the genocide in Rwanda (Berlinale); Moloch Tropical presented in Toronto and Berlin. Raoul Peck’s films have been released theatrically in the United States of America, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Haïti, Japan, and England. His work has also played on television in many of these countries.
