‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Director Raoul Peck Sets Next Documentary on Assassination of Haitian President

“The Hands That Held the Knives” tells the story of the death of President Jovenel Moïse

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Raoul Peck (Credit: Getty Images)

Director Raoul Peck, who helmed the 2016 documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” has announced his new documentary project. “The Hands That Held the Knives” will detail the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.

The documentary, which took over two years to make, is said to be in the same vein as the works of Graham Greene and John Le Carré. Peck was given access to the people involved in Moïse’s killing, and even secretly filmed in Haiti’s prison system. The documentary will lay out Haitian politics, its relationship to the U.S. and the corruption and criminality the country deals with, including drugs and weapons trafficking.

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