Director Raoul Peck begins production on earthquake drama in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti’s best-known filmmaker is turning eye to the aftermath of his homeland’s devastating 2010 earthquake.
France-based Raoul Peck has begun shooting a film called “Murder in Pacot,” which explores how the disaster upended Haiti’s social classes.
Peck says most images of the quake focus on poor people living in the camps for those left homeless by the disaster. Instead, he’s focusing his movie on well-to-do people who lose their social status.
It’s due to be finished in the fall.
The filmmaker’s parents took him into exile in Africa as a child, and he studied in the Congo, France, the United States and Germany. In in recent years he has returned to make several films in Haiti and once was the country’s culture minister.
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