Raoul Peck's documentary 'Ernest Cole' has won the prestigious L’Oeil D’or prize for best documentary at the Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the story of Black South African photographer Ernest Cole, who documented apartheid in his iconic photographs.
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The work of Black South African photographer Ernest Cole is being rediscovered, more than 30 years after his death at the age of 49., directed by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck. It screened at the Toronto International Film Festival after sharing the top prize for documentary at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
“He was one of the first ones to really document Apartheid in image, going places where no other photographer could go,” Peck explained as he stopped by Deadline’s Studio in Toronto. “And then he had, of course, to leave South Africa and came to New York and try to start a new life in exile.
“I didn’t want to make it the center of the film,” the director said. “For me, it was about Ernest Cole telling his own story, and launching his career again, somehow.”, about James Baldwin, actor Samuel L. Jackson voiced writings of Baldwin. For his Ernest Cole film, Peck turned to actor LaKeith Stanfield to bring Cole’s writings to life.“I knew that I needed somebody who will not only ‘impersonate,’ but really embodied Ernest Cole, as I did foror not to narrate. LaKeith was extraordinary.
Peck continued, “I didn’t want this neutral voice like you would use in any other narration. That’s not what I wanted. An actor embodies a character and being him at every moment of the film, depending on the emotions that he has to channel or the mood or the intensity, and only a great actor can really do that the way I needed it.
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