Black Power Mixtape
“An extraordinary feat of editing and archival research … takes up a familiar period in American history from a fresh and fascinating angle.” –New York Times
During its heyday in the 1960s and 70s, Swedish broadcast journalism provided extensive coverage of world, including deeply committed examinations of race and class in America. The footage from this film, produced by Danny Glover, includes startling interviews with Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis, unblinking looks at economic disparity between the races and the scourge of poverty and drugs that plagued urban areas. Contemporary commentators including Erykah Badu, Questlove and Sonia Sanchez bring this startling, gorgeous and unforgettable footage into contemporary context. (d. Göran Olsson, Sweden, 2011, 100m)
February 2012
