Raoul Peck acclaimed at Toronto Film Festival: I Am Not Your Negro

The renowned filmmaker and former Haitian Minister of Culture, Raoul Peck was awarded for "I'm not your Negro", his unconventional documentary about the black American writer James Baldwin. Presented at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), "I Am Not Your Negro" won the Audience Award. A good start for the Peck’s documentary Peck will be at the New York Film Festival in October.

Le Nouvelliste
29 sept. 2016 — Lecture : 2 min.
It took Peck six years to produce his film inspired by the work of Baldwin. The filmmaker, awarded several times for the quality of his work began to read Baldwin as a teenager. He was about 14 and 15 years old. "As adults, many things I said were from him," said Raoul Peck during the 41st edition of the Toronto Festival. The work depicts three black icons tied who brutally disappear: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. All died assassinated. A book, which however, was not completed. "The starting point of the film is: Yes, he

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