Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood (2022)
Overview
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.
Cast
Sandra Nkake
Self - Narrator (voice)
Melvin Van Peebles
Self
Mario Van Peebles
Self
Reginald Hudlin
Self
Bill Duke
Self
Mandela Van Peebles
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