LUMUMBA, by Raoul Peck

Haitian born director, Raoul Peck's latest film about the great African leader Patrice Lumumba will open at Visions Cinema in Washington DC on Friday, July 13. The film will run through July 26.
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"RAOUL PECK was educated in Haiti, Zaire (Congo) and France. He studied engineering and economics at Berlin University, worked as a journalist and photographer from 1980 to 1985, and received his film degree from the Berlin Academy of Film and Television in 1988.

Since then he has directed the following films: "Haitian Corner," "Lumumba - Death of a Prophet," which was awarded the Procirep Prize, Festival du Réel and Best Documentary at the Montreal Film Festival in 1992; "The Man on the Shore," was selected for competition at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival; "Desounen - Dialogue with Death," "Haiti - Silence of the Dogs," "Chère Catherine," which was awarded a Special Prize at the 1997 Lorcano Festival; and "Corps Plongés."

In 1994, Peck was awarded the Nestor Almendros Prize by the Human Rights Watch in New York and this year received its Lifetime Achievement Award."