On this edition of Your Call, we continue our series, The Authoritarian Playbook, with Raoul Peck, the acclaimed Haitian filmmaker and director who made I Am Not Your Negro, the award winning documentary about James Baldwin.
His new documentary, Orwell, 2+2=5, examines how George Orwell's novels 1984 and Animal Farm "foretold a chilling, all-too-believable authoritarian future." It also explores how authoritarians come to power.
Orwell 2+2=5 opens in select theaters on October 10, including the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.
Guest:
Raoul Peck, acclaimed Haitian filmmaker, director of several documentaries, including his latest, Orwell: 2+2=5, the acclaimed HBO 4-part documentary series, Exterminate All the Brutes, the award-winning I Am Not Your Negro, The Young Karl Marx, Lumumba: Death of a Prophet and, Haiti, the silence of the dogs, and former Culture Minister in Haiti in the 1990s
Resources:
The Los Angeles Times: Raoul Peck grew up under dictatorship. His new film on Orwell warns us what comes next
The New York Times: Trump's Lies
