Social Justice Film Night
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"The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75"Directed by Göran Olsson
Nothing short of a revelation
featuring: Angela Davis - Harry Belafonte - Huey P. Newton - Stokely Cars21 Melvin Van Peebles - Sonia Sanchez - Bobby Seale - Ahmir Questlove Thompson - Elaine Brown - Edridge Cleaver Kathleen Cleaver - Louis Farrakhan - Abiodun Oyewole - Melvin Van Peebles - John Forté - Robin Kelley - Talib Kweli - Abiondun Oyewole - Erykah Badu
7:00pm Thursday, February 19BCGEU Hall - 2994 Douglas St. Victoria
Admission by donation
At the end of the 1960’s, numerous Swedish journalists came to... the US, drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Filming for close to a decade, they gained the trust of many of the leaders of the black power movement – Stoakely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis, and Eldridge Cleaver among them – capturing them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews.
Thirty years later, this lush collection of 16mm film, peppered with footage of Black Panther activities and B-roll images of black America, was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television. Director Göran Olsson and producer Danny Glover bring this mesmerizing footage to light and, integrating audio interviews with prominent African-American artists and activists who were influenced by the struggle – from Erykah Badu to Harry Belafonte – craft a dynamic chronicle of the birth and life of a movement.
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