Raoul Peck

The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary filmIn June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be completed. In his documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States - then, and today. 'Thrilling . . . A portrait of one man's confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, "devastated my universe"' The New York Times'Baldwin's voice speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prose-poet of our injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence' Variety 'A cinematic seance . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made' Guardian 'I Am Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet' Rolling Stone

National Bestseller Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving these texts together, Peck brilliantly imagines the book that Baldwin never wrote. In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project have never been published before. Peck's film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin's private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America. This edition contains more than 40 black-and-white images from the film.

"A filmmaker with a fine eye for people and landscapes."--"The New York Times"Among today's leading filmmakers, none brings to the screen such a deep awareness of how power is channeled from first- to third-world societies, or exhibits such great human sensitivity, as Raoul Peck, whose documentary "Lumumba" took the world by storm when it appeared in 1992. Collected here for the first time are Peck's screenplays and piercing images from nine major features and documentary films, including "Lumumba," the award-winning feature about Republic of Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, and "The Man by the Shore," the first Haitian film ever to be screened in theaters in the United States and the first Caribbean film ever entered into competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Includes sixty-four film production stills. Raoul Peck's feature films and documentaries explore internationalist themes of inequality and offer compelling depictions of Haiti under political duress. In addition to filmmaking, Peck has served as Haiti's minister of culture. In 2001 he received the Human Rights Watch Lifetime Achievement Award. His most recent film is "Moloch Tropical." Catherine Temerson's most recent translations include Amin Maalouf's "Origins," Elie Wiesel's "A Mad Desire to Dance," Florence Noiville's "Isaac B. Singer: A Life," and Hiner Saleem's "My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan."