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’Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ Director Raoul Peck: ‘There Is a Fight to Be Had About the State of the World’
‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ director Raul Peck: ‘There is a fight to be had about the state of the world.’
From his early stints as a cab driver and journalist, to a minister of culture post in his native Haiti, to teaching, to founding his Velvet Film production shingle to his breakthrough when he earned an Oscar nomination as producer/director with the James Baldwin doc, “I Am Not Your Negro,” the common denominator is Peck’s drive to make life better through his work. The film got off the ground when the late lensman’s family contacted Peck about a huge trove of negatives recently found in a Swiss bank deposit box, revealing portraits of Black Americans in New York and the South with disturbing parallels to Cole’s homeland. “You hear the words of [Ronald] Reagan, [Margaret] Thatcher and [Jacques] Chirac saying, ‘We shouldn’t boycott South Africa because we’d hurt the very people we want to help.’ [Yet] there was no problem boycotting Russia, even though big numbers of the population there were suffering,” he noted.
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