Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

Original title: Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback

Directed by Catherine Bernstein

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.