Hébert Peck

Hébert Peck, Jr. (born 1958, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a Haitian American Oscar-nominated producer, of both television and film. He produced the critically acclaimed documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, which he received Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, together with director Raoul Peck and co-producer Rémi Grellety.

Born to Hébert B. Peck and Gisele Michel, the family moved to the Congo in the early 1960s to escape the dictatorship of Haitian President "Papa Doc" Duvalier. His brothers (including filmmaker Raoul Peck lived and attended school in the Congo and Orléans, France. Peck finished secondary school in Queens, NY (Hillcrest High School) before attending Ohio University on a soccer scholarship and graduate school at Brooklyn College, NY.

Peck married Kathleen J. Farrell (deceased 2003) and they have two children, and Hebert III.

Hébert Peck, Jr. built his career on public broadcasting, social issue video and documentary filmmaking.

For Velvet Film he co-produced the Academy Award nominated documentary film I Am Not Your Negro (2016) about the life of James Baldwin and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. Also for Velvet Film, he co-produced the documentary film FATAL ASSISTANCE (2013 Berlinale) and also narrated the English version of the film. He produced the video essay, LITTLE HEBERT about the birth of his son with Down Syndrome. The short film has been shown on public television, screened at festivals internationally, and "the power of the Pecks' experience, encapsulated in 13 minutes of film, is used at schools in New Jersey and Pennsylvania to help teachers and parents gain insight into the diagnosis".

Peck produced eight seasons of Philadelphia Stories, a 13-hour series of documentaries and short films for public television (WYBE-TV35) MiND TV.

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