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 was directed by Catherine Bernstein and Martine Delumeau.
Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood runs for 53min, and was released in 2022.
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