‘I Am Not Your Negro’ filmmaker to speak at Vanderbilt
Internationally renowned filmmaker Raoul Peck, whose large body of works includes the Academy Award-nominated I Am Not Your Negro, will speak at Vanderbilt University Oct. 18. Peck’s talk, “I Am Not Your Negro: Race, Identity and Baldwin,” will be at 4:10 p.m. in Sarratt Cinema.
In conjunction with Peck’s visit to campus, his film Lumumba (2000) will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4 in Sarratt Cinema. Following the screening, Moses Ochonu, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of History, will lead a discussion about the film. In addition, I Am Not Your Negro will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16 in Sarratt Cinema. Jennifer Fay, associate professor of cinema and media arts and English, and Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English, will lead a post-screening discussion.