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iciHaiti - Cinema : Documentary «I Am Not Your Negro» awarded at BFATAS
19/02/2018 08:05:00

iciHaiti - Cinema : Documentary «I Am Not Your Negro» awarded at BFATAS
Friday, the film "I Am Not Your Negro" of Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck won an award in the category "documentary" to "British Academy Film Awards" organized by the "British Academy of Film and Television Arts" (BFATAS).

Recall that "I Am Not Your Negro" is also nominated for the Caesar whose 43rd Cesar awards ceremony will take place on March 2, in Paris https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-23470-haiti-culture-the-documentary-i-am-not-your-negro-nominated-to-caesar.html

This documentary by the former Minister of Culture of Haiti (March 1996 September 1997) is a meditation on the representation of African-American identity, an invitation to question the very foundations of what America (United States) represents.

Released on February 3, 2017, awarded several times, notably in the festivals of Berlin (Germany), Toronto (Canada), Philadelphia and Chicago (United States of America), the documentary features three black icons linked, suddenly disappeared: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. all assassinated, taken from the unfinished work of African-American writer James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987), which documented both the life that the murder of Martin Luther King Jr, of Medgar Evers, who was their friend as well as the tragic fate of Malcolm X. Peck reconstitutes the book dealing with the issue of race in the United States and brings to the screen the words used by Baldwin interested in the recurring racial problem in the United States, scene of riots in recent years because of blacks killed without real justification by the forces of order. The voice of Samuel Jackson is used in the original version of the film and that of Joey Starr for the French version (dubbed).

See also :
https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-20733-icihaiti-cinema-i-am-not-your-negro-award-for-best-documentary-in-los-angeles.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20219-haiti-news-zapping-politics.html
https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-19899-icihaiti-cinema-raoul-peck-nominated-for-an-oscars.html
https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-18827-icihaiti-movies-raoul-peck-was-acclaimed-at-the-toronto-film-festival.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-19471-haiti-cinema-i-am-not-your-negro-by-raoul-peck-best-documentary-of-the-year.html

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