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Peck was born in Haiti and raised in Congo, in the USA, France, and Germany. He taught screenwriting and directing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was chairman of La Fémis, in Paris. He has also served as Haiti’s minister of Culture. He directed “The Man by the Shore” (1993), presented at the Cannes Film Festival, “Lumumba” (2000), which premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, “Sometimes in April” (2005), which was in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. His film “I Am Not Your Negro” (2016) was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary and won the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Berlinale. “The Young Karl Marx” (2017, 41st Mostra) was presented in Berlin and “Silver Dollar Road” (2023) in Toronto. Peck also directed the series “Exterminate all the Brutes”, which tells a counter-narrative to white Euro-centric history.