The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Haiti
This page contains a list of the greatest Haitian Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 1,581 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Haiti. This makes Haiti the birth place of the 69th most number of Film Directors behind Cyprus and Kazakhstan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Haitian Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Haitian Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Raoul Peck (1953 - )
With an HPI of 50.20, Raoul Peck is the most famous Haitian Film Director. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Raoul Peck (born 9 September 1953 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a Haitian filmmaker of both documentary and feature films. He is known for using historical, political, and personal characters to tackle and recount societal issues and historical events. Peck was Haiti's Minister of Culture from 1996 to September 1997. His film I Am Not Your Negro (2016), about the life of James Baldwin and race relations in the United States, was nominated for an Oscar in January 2017 and won a César Award in France. Peck's HBO documentary miniseries, Exterminate All the Brutes (2021), received a Peabody Award. Peck is also the founder of Velvet Film, a film production company in Paris, New York, and Port-au-Prince. He also founded "El Dorado Forum" (Port-au-Prince, Haiti) in 1995, a center that supports the creativity and enrichment of artists.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as film directors born between 1953 and 1953. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living film directors include Raoul Peck.
