Neon has acquired the North American rights to Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning director, Raoul Peck’s (I Am Not Your Negro) documentary Orwell, the definitive feature-length documentary on visionary author George Orwell, with the exclusive cooperation of the Orwell Estate.
Producers include Alex Gibney for Jigsaw Productions, Raoul Peck for Velvet Films, and Nick Shumaker for Anonymous Content. Stacey Offman and Richard Perello will executive produce for Jigsaw. Zhang Xin, Joey Marra, and William Horberg will executive produce for Closer Media, alongside Jessica Grimshaw, Dawn Olmstead, and David Levine of Anonymous, and Jeff Skoll and Courtney Sexton of Participant. Johnny Fewings of Universal Pictures Content Group will serve as executive producer on the film, which is currently in production.
“’Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past…,’ wrote Orwell in his novel, 1984. Today, the “newspeak” of authoritarian rule is alive and well and in unexpected places,...
Producers include Alex Gibney for Jigsaw Productions, Raoul Peck for Velvet Films, and Nick Shumaker for Anonymous Content. Stacey Offman and Richard Perello will executive produce for Jigsaw. Zhang Xin, Joey Marra, and William Horberg will executive produce for Closer Media, alongside Jessica Grimshaw, Dawn Olmstead, and David Levine of Anonymous, and Jeff Skoll and Courtney Sexton of Participant. Johnny Fewings of Universal Pictures Content Group will serve as executive producer on the film, which is currently in production.
“’Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past…,’ wrote Orwell in his novel, 1984. Today, the “newspeak” of authoritarian rule is alive and well and in unexpected places,...
- 3/8/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
French Institute season to celebrate the work of Raoul Peck. To accompany the release of Oscar nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro, the French Institute in Edinburgh is screening six of director Raoul Peck’s previous films throughout April and May.
The season entitled Raoul Peck, Chronicles of an Exile explores Peck’s trajectory from Haiti, where he was borned, to the newly formed Democratic Republic of the Congo and on to France.
Peck’s filmography is tainted by the memory of the painful exile from Haiti, fleeing the Duvalier dictatorship in 1961 (The Man On The Shore), only to arrive in the newly independent Congo which would see its Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba assassinated in the months following Peck’s move (Lumumba and Lumumba, The Death Of A Prophet). From New-York (Haitian Corner) to Kinshasa (Lumumba, The Death Of A Prophet), Peck portrays the immigrants and the misplaced. His...
The season entitled Raoul Peck, Chronicles of an Exile explores Peck’s trajectory from Haiti, where he was borned, to the newly formed Democratic Republic of the Congo and on to France.
Peck’s filmography is tainted by the memory of the painful exile from Haiti, fleeing the Duvalier dictatorship in 1961 (The Man On The Shore), only to arrive in the newly independent Congo which would see its Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba assassinated in the months following Peck’s move (Lumumba and Lumumba, The Death Of A Prophet). From New-York (Haitian Corner) to Kinshasa (Lumumba, The Death Of A Prophet), Peck portrays the immigrants and the misplaced. His...
- 4/4/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The story of the iconic African leader rushes a bit, though it's through history so dramatic it's hard to contain in a movie
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: B+
Independence leader Patrice Lumumba became the first prime minister of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo when Belgian imperial rule ended in 1960. He was soon deposed in a military coup. Joseph Mobutu (later Mobutu Sese Seko) took power.
Politics
Patrice Lumumba (Eriq Ebouaney) travels to Léopoldville, capital of what was then the Belgian Congo, to work as a beer salesman. One of his first customers is Joseph Mobutu (Alex Descas), who becomes a friend and ally. This was director Raoul Peck's second Lumumba movie, after a 1992 documentary, Lumumba: Death of a Prophet, which may explain why he gallops at breakneck speed through the material. It's not often the viewer feels a historical film should actually be longer,...
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: B+
Independence leader Patrice Lumumba became the first prime minister of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo when Belgian imperial rule ended in 1960. He was soon deposed in a military coup. Joseph Mobutu (later Mobutu Sese Seko) took power.
Politics
Patrice Lumumba (Eriq Ebouaney) travels to Léopoldville, capital of what was then the Belgian Congo, to work as a beer salesman. One of his first customers is Joseph Mobutu (Alex Descas), who becomes a friend and ally. This was director Raoul Peck's second Lumumba movie, after a 1992 documentary, Lumumba: Death of a Prophet, which may explain why he gallops at breakneck speed through the material. It's not often the viewer feels a historical film should actually be longer,...
- 6/14/2012
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Some 11 years before Denzel Washington played Malcolm X, Morgan Freeman beat him to the punch playing him in theater director Woodie King Jr.’s 1981 low budget made-for-tv film Death of a Prophet. The film, which mainly played in the film festival circuit where I saw it, also has the unique casting of Martin Luther King’s late daughter Yolanda King as Malcolm X’s wife Betty Shabazz. The film was briefly released on DVD but is scheduled to be released again on Echo Bridge Entertainment Video soon. First Malcolm, then Mandela. I think Freeman should go for the trifecta and play Frederick Douglas next. Check out the trailer:...
- 3/21/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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