I Am Not Your Negro
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Date: January 01, 2016 to December 31, 2016
Dates Note: 2016
Country of Origin:
Belgium
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France
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Switzerland
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United States
Place of Origin: United States, France, Belgium, Switzerland
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Color: B&W/Color
Silent: No
Based On: The writings of James Baldwin
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African Film Festival 2017Description:
Race, power, and film collide in Raoul Peck’s invigorating look at the great writer James Baldwin, whose powerful investigations on American culture and racism were written decades ago, but whose “words matter now more than ever” (Manuel Betancourt, Esquire). Based on Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House, which eulogized Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers, and his essays on Hollywood and race, I Am Not Your Negro may technically be telling the story of civil rights in 1960s America, but—through clips from Ferguson, Black Lives Matter, and more—it seems sorrowfully urgent and utterly necessary today.
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Reflection and Resistance: James Baldwin and CinemaDescription:
Race, power, and film collide in Raoul Peck’s invigorating look at James Baldwin, whose potent investigations on American culture and racism were written decades ago, but whose “words matter now more than ever” (Manuel Betancourt, Esquire). Based on Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House, which eulogized Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers, and his essays on Hollywood and race, I Am Not Your Negro may technically be telling the story of civil rights in 1960s America, but—through clips from Ferguson, Black Lives Matter, and more—it seems sorrowfully urgent and utterly necessary today.
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