sentences:  His film "I Am Not Your Negro" (2016), about the life of James Baldwin and race relations in the United States, was nominated for an Oscar in January 2017.Peck was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.At the age of eight, Peck and his family (he has two younger brothers) fled the Duvalier dictatorship and joined his father in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).