Raoul Peck
‘Silver Dollar Road’ Director Raoul Peck on Doc’s Interrogation of Systemic Racism: “When Was America Great, and For Whom?”
Our ancestors left this here for us,” a member of the North Carolina-based Reels family says in the documentary Silver Dollar Road, referring to the 65-acre waterfront property that had long been their financial and spiritual haven. In the late 1970s, a relative of the Reelses cited a legal loophole to claim that he was […]
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‘Silver Dollar Road’ Review: Raoul Peck’s Intimate Chronicle of a Black Family’s Messy Legal Battle
The director of 'I Am Not Your Negro' and 'Exterminate the Brutes' offers a portrait of the Reels, a Black family trying to save their land from developer encroachment in North Carolina.
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Toronto: Louis C.K. Accusers Film, Serena Williams’ ‘Copa 71’ Highlight Documentary Program
The soccer documentary Copa 71, from executive producers Serena Williams and Venus Williams, is set to open the Toronto Film Festival’s Docs sidebar as it recounts the 1971 Women’s World Cup tournament in Mexico City. The documentary from directors Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine will have its world premiere at TIFF. New Black Films, Dogwoof […]
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Neon Lands George Orwell Doc From Raoul Peck, Alex Gibney
Neon has landed the North American rights to Orwell, the Raoul Peck- directed doc about the 1984 author. The doc, which has the cooperation of the Orwell Estate and is currently in production, will tell the story of the English novelist who is known for his satirical and outright critiques of authoritarianism as seen in […]
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‘Exterminate All the Brutes’: TV Review
Josh Hartnett stars in Raoul Peck's experimental hybrid docuseries for HBO about colonialism and genocide in Africa and the Americas.
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Raoul Peck Discusses Next Project After ‘I Am Not Your Negro’
The Oscar-nominee has 'Young Karl Marx' out in the fall, and says his next feature is unlikely to be a documentary.
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‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Director’s Karl Marx Film Acquired by The Orchard
The film stars August Diehl, Stefan Konarske and Vicky Krieps.
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Watch THR’s Full, Uncensored Documentary Roundtable With ‘O.J.,’ ‘I Am Not Your Negro,’ ‘Weiner’ Filmmakers and More
THR's Writer Roundtable brings together Ezra Edelman ('O.J.: Made in America'), Werner Herzog ('Into the Inferno,' 'Lo and Behold'), Kirsten Johnson ('Cameraperson'), Josh Kriegman ('Weiner'), Raoul Peck ('I Am Not Your Negro') and Roger Ross Williams ('Life, Animated'). THR Roundtables air every Sunday on SundanceTV.
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‘The Young Karl Marx’: Film Review | Berlin 2017
Director Raoul Peck (‘I Am Not Your Negro’) sets 'The Communist Manifesto' in the context of the Industrial Revolution in his fictional feature 'The Young Karl Marx.'
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‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Director Raoul Peck Was “Just the Messenger” for Author James Baldwin | Documentary Oscar Roundtable
"The starting point of the movie are the words of a person, a great author, James Baldwin."
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Documentary Roundtable: ‘O.J.,’ ‘Weiner’ Filmmakers and 4 More on Dealing With Death Onscreen and When to Turn the Camera Off
THR gathered six non-fiction filmmakers — Ezra Edelman ('O.J.: Made in America'), Werner Herzog ('Into the Inferno,' 'Lo and Behold'), Kirsten Johnson ('Cameraperson'), Josh Kriegman ('Weiner'), Raoul Peck ('I Am Not Your Negro') and Roger Ross Williams ('Life, Animated') — for a discussion about when to intercede in a scene, how much brutality to reveal on screen and why the diversity issue is "worse" in the doc world.
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