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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

80 %|Mar 16, 2022|Documentary, History

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.

Featured Crew

Catherine Bernstein
Director
Martine Delumeau
Director
Pasquin Mariani
Sound
Benoît Alavoine
Editor
Jérôme Colin
Director of Photography

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