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Sweet Black Film
In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles, an independent filmmaker far ahead of his time, released a mind-blowing piece of avant-garde cinema - Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It broke all the rules, inventing its own grammar and proclaimin...
February 8, 1929 in Lyon, Rhône, France
21 August 1932, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 5, 1959
20 November 1927, Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
5 September 1921, Houston, Texas, USA
24 February 1959, Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
26 February 1943, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
15 January 1957, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
12 May 1931, Georgetown, British Guiana

