Sweet Black Film 2022

Synopsis:

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.

Directed by: Catherine Bernstein & Martine Delumeau
Release date: 2022-03-16
Runtime: 53 minutes
Cast:
Sandra Nkake
Sandra Nkake
Self - Narrator (voice) 
Marguerite Van Peebles
Marguerite Van Peebles
Self 
Mike Sargent
Mike Sargent
Self 
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Also known as:
  • Der Pate des Black Cinema – Melvin Van Peebles und Sweet Sweetbacks Lied
  • Melvin Van Peebles: «Sweet Sweetback» – La nascita di un eroe nero al cinema
  • Melvin Van Peebles: narodziny czarnej gwiazdy kina
  • Nacimiento de un héroe negro en el cine: Sweet Sweetback
  • Sweet Black Film : Naissance du héros noir à Hollywood
  • Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
  • The Birth of a Black Movie Hero: Sweet Sweetback