Country:United States of America

Director:Melvin Van Peebles

Program:Parallel Pathways

Summary:

Melvin Van Peebles, prior to making the groundbreaking film, SweetSweetback’s Badaaaaass Song, was risked to make Hollywood studio film which proves to be a randy experiment that expresses complex ideas about race and racism and made certain that “he would never work in that town again”--so he had better produce his own damn movies!