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Velvet Film is a
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company. It was created 1986 in Berlin, Germany by the
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an filmmaker and political activist Raoul Peck as Velvet Film GmbH. The company is now based in France, Haiti and in the United States of America.
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was 1991 the first feature film produced by the company. The film was successfully shown all over Europe and North America and so enabled the partnership of Velvet Film in future production with JBA Production (France), Arte (France and Germany),
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(USA) and others. All later documentaries, feature films and TV dramas of Peck have been produced or co-produced by Velvet Film.Velvet Film
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Films produced (incomplete)

* '' Haitian Corner'' (1987) * ''
Lumumba, la mort d'un prophète ''Lumumba, la mort du prophète'' (''Lumumba, the death of the prophet'') is a 1990 documentary film by Haitian director Raoul Peck. It covers the death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Cong ...
'' (1990) * ''
The Man by the Shore ''The Man by the Shore'' (french: L'Homme sur les quais) is a 1993 Haitian-French drama film directed by Raoul Peck. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. It was financed by Canada and France. It was released by KJM3 Entertainment ...
'' (1993) * '' Desounen: Dialogue with Death'' (1994) * '' Profit & Nothing But!'' (2001) * '' Sometimes in April'' (2005) * ''
Moloch Tropical ''Moloch Tropical '' is a 2009 film about a political revolution in Haiti. Plot Amidst the protection of a fortified palace perched on the top of a mountain, a democratically elected president and his closest collaborators are getting ready for ...
'' (2009) * ''
Murder in Pacot ''Murder in Pacot'' (french: Meurtre à Pacot, german: Mord in Haiti) is a feature film by Haitian film director Raoul Peck. The film stars Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin, Alex Descas, Thibault Vinçon, and Lovely Kermonde Fifi and is a continuation o ...
'' (2014) * '' Soley'' (2015) * '' I Am Not Your Negro'' (2016) * '' The Young Karl Marx'' (2017) * ''
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'' (2021)


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