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

🎭 Genres:Documentary, History

⭐️ Actors:Sandra Nkake, Melvin Van Peebles, Max Van Peebles, Marguerite Van Peebles, Mike Sargent

🌍 Country:France

📅 Year:2022

🎬 Director:Catherine Bernstein, Martine Delumeau

📝 Description: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.