
Film director and producer Raoul Peck directed The Man by the Shore and Lumumba, both of which were presented at the Festival de Cannes; Sometimes in April, which screened at the Berlin International Film Festival; Moloch Tropical and Murder in Pacot, which both played at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Berlinale; The Young Karl Marx, another Berlinale selection; and Ernest Cole, Lost and Found, which won the Œil d’or at Cannes. His Academy Award nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro won a BAFTA, a César, and Audience Awards at TIFF and the Berlinale. Exterminate All the Brutes received a Peabody Award. Peck has received lifetime achievement honors from Human Rights Watch, DOC NYC, and the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. Orwell: 2+2=5 was presented as a Cannes Premiere.
1949. George Orwell finishes what will be his final but most important novel, 1984. Orwell: 2+2=5 delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece: Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, and the omnipresent specter of Big Brother—disturbing socio-political truths that resonate all the more powerfully today.
Director Raoul Peck
Producer Alex Gibney, Raoul Peck, George Chignell, Nick Shumaker
Screenwriter Raoul Peck
Cinematographer Julian Schwanitz, Ben Bloodwell, Stuart Luck, Aera, Maung Nadi, Roman T
Editor Alexandra Strauss
Sound Benoît Hillebrant
Music Alexeï Aïgui
Production Companies Jigsaw Productions, Velvet Film
International Sales Company Goodfellas
Distributor Teleview