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EXCLUSIVE SYDNEY SCREENING of
THE BLACK POWER MIX TAPE 67-75
FEATURING
ANGELA DAVIS • ERYKAH BADU • BOBBY SEAL
?UESTLOVE [THE ROOTS] • STOKELY CARMICHAEL
TALIB KWELI • MELVIN VAN PEEBLES • HARRY BELAFONTE
JOHN FORTE [THE FUGEES] • HUEY P NEWTON + OTHERS
7PM WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH
CELLAR-UNDERGROUND BAR
OXFORD HOTEL, DARLINGHURST
ONLY $5 ON THE DOOR
Groovescooter Records and Eastside Radio 89.7
present the launch of their CELLAR-ULOID Sessions with an exclusive Sydney screening of Göran Olsson‘s Sundance Award-winning film The Black Power Mix Tape 67-75.
Mixing newly discovered footage from a Swedish filmmaker team’s trips to the US during the height of the Black Power Movement in the ’60s/’70s, audio interviews, contemporary commentary and an award-winning soundtrack by ?uestlove of The Roots, all combine for this formal, powerful mosaic that is both uplifting and thought-provoking in its impact. The film utilises an innovative format that riffs on the popular 70s ‘mixtape’, to create a cinematic and musical journey into the ghettos of America featuring some of the country’s most innovative recording artists.
With thanks to Curious Films
THE BLACK POWER MIX TAPE 67-75
FURTHER READING
At the end of the ’60s and into the early ’70s, European interest in the US Civil Rights Movement and the US anti-war movement peaked. With a combination of commitment and naiveté, Swedish filmmakers traveled across the Atlantic to explore the Black Power Movement, which was being alternately ignored or portrayed in the US media as a violent, nascent terrorist movement. Despite the obstacles they were confronted with, both from the conservative white American power establishment and from radicalized Movement members themselves, the Swedish filmmakers did not cease their investigation and ultimately formed bonds with key figures in the Movement, based on their common objective of realizing equal rights for all.
In the Black Power Mixtape filmmaker Göran Olsson brings this newly discovered footage to light and introduces it to a new generation across the world in a penetrating examination – through the lens of Swedish filmmakers – of the Black Power Movement from 1967-75, and its worldwide resonance. FIND OUT MORE
Featuring
Angela Davis: political activist, professor and author
Huey P. Newton: political activist, co-found Black Power Movement
Harry Belafonte: singer, recording artist, actor and activist
Kathleen Cleaver: Communications Secretary, Black Panther Party, professor
Bobby Seale: Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
Erykah Badu: recording artist
Robin Kelley: professor, author
John Forté: recording artist The Fugees
Talib Kweli: hip-hop recording artist
Melvin Van Peebles: actor, director
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson: music producer, DJ, drummer forThe Roots
Sonia Sanchez: poet, professor, associated with the Black Arts Movement
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