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THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975

Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson

Louverture Films is a Co Producer
 

festivals & AWARDS

  • Cinema Eye Honors Awards 2012 - Nominee Cinema Eye Audience Choice Prize, Nominee Cinema Eye Honors Award Outstanding Achievement in Editing

  • Black Reel Awards 2012 - Nominee Black Reel Best Documentary

  • Guldbagge Awards (Swedish Film Awards) 2011 - Winner Best Editing, Best Music, Nominee Best Documentary

  • African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) - Winner AAFCA Award Best Documentary

  • Grierson 2011: The British Documentary Awards - Shortlist

  • BFI London Film Festival 2011 - Nominee Grierson Award

  • SilverDocs 2011

  • Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival 2011

  • CPH:DOX 2011 - Nominee Nordix Dox Award

  • Miami International Film Festival 2011 - Nominee Grand Jury Prize Knight Dox Competition

  • Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2011

  • New Directors/New Films 2011

  • True/False Fest 2011

  • Berlinale International Film Festival 2011 - Panorama

  • Sundance Film Festival 2011 - Winner World Cinema Documentary Editing Award, Nominee Grand Jury Prize World Cinema Documentary


Modeled on the 1970s ‘mixtape’ format, this feature documentary examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement from 1967-76. Combining amazing 16mm footage that had been lying undiscovered in Swedish archives for the past 30 years, with music and contemporary commentary from artists, intellectuals, musicians and activists, Mixtape presents an insightful and startlingly fresh portrait of the people, society, culture and styles that fueled a change.

www.facebook.com/BlackPowerMixtape The Black Power Mixtape is compilation feature documentary film that displays the story of the African-American community 1967-1975, the people, the society and the style that fueled a change. Told with sparkling, beautiful and deep footage, lost in the archives in Sweden for 30 years.

 

“THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE” book now available from Haymarket Books, includes contemporary interviews with major figures of the Black Power Movement that are not in the film.