Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood (2022)

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

2022

Documentary History

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.

Credits

Director

Catherine Bernstein

Martine Delumeau

Cast

Bill Duke as Self

Donna Dubrow as Self

Marguerite Van Peebles as Self

Mario Van Peebles as Self

Max Van Peebles as Self

Melvin Van Peebles as Self

Mike Sargent as Self