RAOUL PECK is a director, screenwriter and producer. Born in Haiti and raised in the Congo, U.S., France and Germany, Peck established Velvet Film in 1989, through which he has produced or co-produced all of his films. His complex body of work includes those such as Lumumba (Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2000, HBO); Sometimes in April (Competition, Berlinale 2005); and The Young Karl Marx (Berlinale 2017). His latest documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro (2016) was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards and won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.
