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Raoul Peck, the Oscar-nominated director of I Am Not Your Negro, is teaming with HBO for Exterminate All the Brutes, an ambitious four-part hybrid docuseries that will explore the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism. The project is being culled from three books: Sven Lindqvist's Exterminate All t…

The Orchard has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Young Karl Marx, the latest film from Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck. A fall theatrical release is planned for the pic, which bowed this year at Berlin. August Diehl, Stefan Konarske and Vicky Krieps star. Peck directed, produced and…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Raoul Peck, who just earned a DGA nomination for his acclaimed documentary I Am Not Your Negro, has signed with ICM Partners. The film, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, is based on published and unpublished writings of James Baldwin, and examines the past, present, and future of race in America. ICM…

“The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.” Samuel L. Jackson recites that line in the new trailer for I Am Not Your Negro, in which director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished: a radical narration about race in America, using the writer’s original…

Altitude Film Distribution has picked up UK rights to Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, the feature documentary based on James Baldwin's notes for an unfinished novel Remember This House. The book is considered one of the great incomplete works of American literature, where Baldwin attempts to recount the lives and…

Magnolia Pictures has picked up North American rights to Raoul Peck's documentary I Am Not Your Negro, based on James Baldwin's unfinished book Remember This House. The book is considered one of the great incomplete works of American literature, where Baldwin attempts to recount the lives and successive assassinations…

On proud display at a Toronto festival session with the documentarian Raoul Peck on Tuesday morning was the first requisite of any successful, old-school filmmaker: a healthy sense of self. "When I have people trust me with their money, I am obligated to give them a great film, I am not obligated to give them a…