{"id":11465,"date":"2022-08-05T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=11465"},"modified":"2022-10-02T18:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T18:32:55","slug":"sweet-black-film-the-birth-of-a-black-hero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/sweet-black-film-the-birth-of-a-black-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"SWEET BLACK FILM, THE BIRTH OF A BLACK HERO (NAISSANCE D\u2019UN HEROS NOIR AU CINEMA : SWEET SWEETBACK)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SWEET BLACK FILM, THE BIRTH OF A BLACK HERO
\n(NAISSANCE D\u2019UN H\u00c9RO NOIR AU CIN\u00c9MA : SWEET SWEETBACK)<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663614989348{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Thursday, October 13 – <\/b>Truffaut Theater – 4:10 pm
\n(Screening ends at 5:30 pm)
\n<\/em>+ Short Film Presentation: FACELESS
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

DOCUMENTARY<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664735573090{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Presented in Association with:
\n<\/span>Arte France
\nTitrafilm
\nWomen in Film<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/63269a9cefd7f800ae99db23″ align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1659728556067{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]North American Premiere<\/b><\/span> | France\u00a0|\u00a02022\u00a0|\u00a0Documentary |\u00a052\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In English\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Directed by<\/b>:<\/span> Catherine Bernstein, Martine Delumeau
\n<\/span>Written by<\/b>: Catherine Bernstein, Martine Delumeau
\nProduced by<\/b>: Steven Gautier (Pop\u2019Films), Cyril Perez & Gilles Perez (13 Prods), Philip Hart & Tanya Hart, Arte
\n<\/span>Cinematography<\/b>: J\u00e9r\u00f4me Colin
\n<\/span>Film Editing<\/b>: Catherine Bernstein, Martine Delumeau
\n<\/span>Cast<\/b>: Melvin Van Peebles, Mario Van Peebles, Reginald Hudlin, Mike Sargent
\n<\/span>International Sales<\/b>:<\/span> Arte France
\n<\/span>Original Broadcast<\/b>: Arte France and Arte Germany, March 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles<\/strong>, an independent filmmaker far ahead of his time, released a mind-blowing piece of avant-garde cinema \u2014 <\/span>Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 It broke all the rules, inventing its own grammar and proclaiming its emancipation from cinematic conventions.\u00a0 It turned the Hollywood studio system on its head, creatively sidestepping prevailing constraints and scrounging up alternative financing.\u00a0 Most importantly, Van Peebles splashed Black Power across the big screen in a way people had never seen before, depicting a heroic character who both defies “the man” and illustrates the oppression of Blacks, from slavery to the Watts riots.\u00a0 The film cost $150K to produce and took in $15.2 million at the box-office, to become the highest-grossing independent film of all time.\u00a0 Hollywood took notice and, in response, created a whole new genre, churning out cheap blaxploitation pictures.\u00a0 In Van Peeble’s own words, “Hollywood took my formula, diminished the concept of Negritude to a flamboyant cartoon, and reversed the political message, turning it into a counter-revolutionary one…\u00a0 And <\/span>voil\u00e0<\/span><\/i>!”\u00a0 Despite the fact that <\/span>Sweet Sweetback <\/span><\/i>has inspired many filmmakers of color to make movies outside the Hollywood machine and mindset, its message is sadly just as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.\u00a0 This fascinating documentary is the story of that saga.<\/span><\/p>\n

Catherine Bernstein<\/b>‘s first short film, <\/span>Zohra on the Beach<\/span><\/i> (1996) was honored at the Locarno Short Film Festival. She went on to direct numerous award-winning documentaries for television, including <\/span>Murder of a Hatmaker<\/span><\/i> (2006); <\/span>Le voyage encyclop\u00e9dique de Michel Serres<\/span><\/i> (2008); <\/span>Asylum<\/span><\/i> (2008); <\/span>Naked<\/span><\/i> (2009); <\/span>Alan Turing, The Code of Life<\/span><\/i> (2013); <\/span>Le Libraire<\/span><\/i> (2015); <\/span>T4, un m\u00e9decin sous le nazisme<\/span><\/i> (2016); and <\/span>Fritz Bauer: Prosecutor of the Nazis<\/span><\/i> (2018).\u00a0 Sorbonne graduate <\/span>Martine Delumeau<\/b> currently teaches at La F\u00e9mis film school in Paris.\u00a0 Her documentaries for Arte, France 5 and France 2 have focused on immigration, racial discrimination, health in the workplace, and the disabled. They include <\/span>Dassler contre Dassler, Adidas contre Puma<\/span><\/i> (2014) and <\/span>Le v\u00e9ritable co\u00fbt de l’immigration<\/span><\/i> (2015). For the past four years, she has overseen <\/span>L’\u0153il et la main<\/span><\/i>, a documentary series on sign language, facilitating an ongoing dialogue between deaf people and the hearing world, for France 5. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sweet_black-film.png” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sweet-black-film.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663686298676{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] SWEET BLACK FILM, THE BIRTH OF A BLACK HERO (NAISSANCE D\u2019UN H\u00c9RO NOIR AU CIN\u00c9MA : SWEET SWEETBACK) [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663614989348{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Thursday, October 13 – Truffaut Theater – 4:10 pm (Screening ends at 5:30 pm) + Short Film Presentation: FACELESS DOCUMENTARY [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664735573090{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11465","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11465"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13106,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11465\/revisions\/13106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}