MK2 Films, the company behind six films showing at Cannes including the competition title for Leonor Serraille’s Mother and Son, has acquired French and international rights to Raoul Peck’s catalog of Velvet Films.
MK2 Films will begin selling its movie library during the Cannes Film Festival. Raoul Peck’s collection includes documentary and feature films, including the HBO documentary series “Exterminate All the Brutes,” which earned Peck a DGA Award nomination.
The collection also includes “I’m Not a Negro”, the Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, as well as the blockbuster “Lumumba: Death of a Prophet” whose restored 4K version was shown at Cannes. Last year’s classics. The docu is a historical investigation that weaves together memories of Peck’s childhood and a tribute to a leading figure in modern African heritage.
MK2 Films will now also represent Beck’s “Haitian Films,” a mini-set consisting of three feature films and a documentary, “The Haitian Corner,” the Moloch Tropical, The Fatal Aid, and “Murder in Bacote,” a look at Haitian society, from dictatorship to democracy over 50 years.
“We are very proud to represent the vital and political work of Raoul Peck. He is an essential voice today, resonating in his films with a relentless attack on racism, genocide and colonialism, said Nathaniel Kremets, CEO of MK2 Films.
Meanwhile, Beck said he was pleased to have found such a “famous, well-established but innovative home” for his films. ICM Partners represents Raoul Peck’s films in North America.
The Raoul Peck collection joins MK2 Films’ sprawling library of more than 800 films from France and around the world, including the collections of François Truffaut in 1999, Charles Chaplin’s in 2001, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy’s in 2017, and Jacques Rozier in earlier this year. The library also boasts films by Claude Chabrol, Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof Kilowski, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Lynch, Alain Resnais, Gus Van Sant.
MK2 Films also re-enacts restored classic films in 2K and 4K from moviegoers such as DW Griffith and Alice Guy-Blaché, to Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy and Buster Keaton, as well as contemporary filmmakers such as Jia Zhang-Ke, Joachim Trier and Celine Siyama, Xavier Dolan and Matti Diop.
MK2 Films also handles several international premieres across different sections of the festival: Leonor Serraille (“Jeune Femme”) the family saga “Mother and Son” in competition; As well as Serge Bozon’s musical-romantic comedy “Don Juan” with Taher Rahim at the Cannes premiere. Marie Kreuzer’s “Corsage” with Vicky Krieps and Davy Chou’s “All the People I’ll Never Be” is set for Un Certain Regard; The sensational debut of Emmanuel Nicot “Love According to Dalva” and Clément Cogitore (“The Wakhan Front”) “Sons of Ramses” starring Karim Leclau.
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