Stolen Images

"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."