Haitian movie director Raoul Peck has been chosen as a jury member at this year’s Cannes Film Festival along with ‘The Descendants’ director Alexander Payne, Wuthering Heights’ Andrea Arnold and French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier.

A combination made on April 26, 2012 shows file pictures of the members of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival jury (see below), unvealed on April 25, 2012. From left to right, top to bottom: head of the jury, Italian film director Nanni Moretti, British actor Ewan McGregor, Haitian director Raoul Peck, French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, German actress Diane Kruger, British director Andrea Arnold, French actress Emmanuelle Devos, US director Alexander Payne, Palestinian director and actress Hiam Abbass.

The festival opens on May 16, with Bill Murray drama ‘Moonrise Kingdom’.

About Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck (b. 1953, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is an award-winning Haitian filmmaker, of both documentary and feature films, and a political activist. Briefly, in the 1990s, he was Haiti’s Minister of Culture.

Filmography

-De Cuba Traigo Un Cantar (short; 1982)
-Exzerpt (short; 1983)
-Leugt (short; 1983)
-The Minister of the Interior is on our Side (short; 1984)
-Merry Christmas Deutschland (short; 1984)
-Haitian Corner (1987–88)
-Lumumba: La mort du prophète (Lumumba: Death of a Prophet, 1992)
-L’Homme sur les quais (The Man by the Shore, 1993)
-Haiti – Le silence des chiens (Haiti – Silence of the Dogs, 1994)
-Desounen: Dialogue with Death (1994)
-Chère Catherine (1997)
-Corps plongés (It’s Not About Love, 1998)
-Lumumba (2000)
-Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle (2001)
-Sometimes in April (2005)
-L’Affaire Villemin (2006), TV Series
-Moloch Tropical (2009)
-Karl Marx in production, 2009