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I am not your negro.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: MMA9218 | Madman EntertainmentPublication details: Australia : Distributed by Madman Entertainment, 2017.Description: 1 DVD-video (89 minutes) : sound, black and white, colour ; 12 cmUniform titles:
  • I am not your negro (Motion picture)
  • I am not your negro (Documentary film : 2016)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 323.1196073 23
Production credits:
  • Producers, Rémi Grellety, Hébert Peck, Raoul Peck ; director, Raoul Peck ; screenplay, James Baldwin, Raoul Peck.
With the voice of Samuel L. Jackson ; featuring James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Dick Cavett, Ray Charles, George W. Bush.Summary: Using James Baldwin's unfinished final manuscript, Remember This House, this documentary follows the lives and successive assassinations of three of the author's friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., delving into the legacy of these iconic figures and narrating historic events using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. An up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, this film is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
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Originally produced as a documentary film in 2016.

Based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript, "Remember this house."

"Winner of over 20 awards including audience awards at the Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals.

Producers, Rémi Grellety, Hébert Peck, Raoul Peck ; director, Raoul Peck ; screenplay, James Baldwin, Raoul Peck.

With the voice of Samuel L. Jackson ; featuring James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Dick Cavett, Ray Charles, George W. Bush.

Black Film Critics Circle award winner, 2016, Special Mention, I Am Not Your Negro.

52nd Chicago International Film Festival award winner, 2016, Audience Choice Award - Best Documentary Feature, Raoul Peck.

Hamptons International Film Festival award winner, 2016,Audience Award - Best Documentary, Raoul Peck.

International Documentary Association award winner, 2016, Creative Recognition Award - Best Writing, Raoul Peck, James Baldwin.

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards award winner, 2016, Audience Award - Best Feature ; Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature, Raoul Peck.

San Francisco Film Critics Circle award winner, 2016, Best Documentary Film, Raoul Peck.

St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association award winner, 2016, Best Documentary Feature, I Am Not Your Negro.

41st Toronto International Film Festival award winner, 2016, People's Choice Award - Documentary, Raoul Peck.

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards award winner, 2016, Best Documentary, I Am Not Your Negro.

Using James Baldwin's unfinished final manuscript, Remember This House, this documentary follows the lives and successive assassinations of three of the author's friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., delving into the legacy of these iconic figures and narrating historic events using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. An up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, this film is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.

Censorship classification: M.

PAL ; Region 4 ; Anamorphic widescreen 16:9 ; Audio, Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0.

In English. English captions.

Madman Entertainment : MMA9218.

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