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

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

53 mins | Documentary, History | March 17, 2022

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.

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

53 mins | Documentary, History | March 17, 2022

Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
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.
Producers ARTE, 13 Prods, Pop'Films
Original title Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback
Directors Martine Delumeau, Catherine Bernstein
Writers

Cast

Sandra Nkake

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Max Van Peebles

as Self

Mike Sargent

as Self

Reginald Hudlin

as Self

Sandra Rush

as Self

Donna Dubrow

as Self

Bill Duke

as Self

Philip Hart

as Self