Carmel Dagan Staff WriterMelvin Van Peebles, the influential filmmaker behind “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song,” and father of director and actor Mario Van Peebles, has died.
He was 89.“Dad knew that Black images matter,” Mario Van Peebles said in a statement from the Criterion Collection. “If a picture is worth a thousand words, what was a movie worth?
We want to be the success we see, thus we need to see ourselves being free. True liberation did not mean imitating the colonizer’s mentality.
It meant appreciating the power, beauty and interconnectivity of all people.”“Sweet Sweetback” will be screened at the New York Film Festival this week for a 50th anniversary tribute. “In an unparalleled career distinguished by relentless innovation,.
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