Come to the Tim Gill Center for Public Media for this Indie Lens Pop-Up community screening event including a short discussion afterward. Brought to you by: Rocky Mountain PBS, Independent Lens | PBS, and Independent Film Society of Colorado.
Cookies from Sacred Ground Cafe will be provided courtesy of the Colorado Springs Film Commission. Arrive early to grab one!
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, to be
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Come to the Tim Gill Center for Public Media for this Indie Lens Pop-Up community screening event including a short discussion afterward. Brought to you by: Rocky Mountain PBS, Independent Lens | PBS, and Independent Film Society of Colorado.
Cookies from Sacred Ground Cafe will be provided courtesy of the Colorado Springs Film Commission. Arrive early to grab one!
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, to be called Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends — Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. But at the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of his manuscript. Now, in his Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.
The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words, spoken by Samuel L. Jackson, and a flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
Awards:
- 52nd Chicago International Film Festival: Audience Choice Award – Best Documentary Feature
- Hamptons International Film Festival: Audience Award – Best Documentary
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Best Documentary Film
- Philadelphia Film Festival: Audience Award – Best Feature
- San Francisco Film Critics Circle: Best Documentary Film
- St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association: Best Documentary Feature
- 41st Toronto International Film Festival: People’s Choice Award – Documentary
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