THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 (Göran Hugo Olsson)

 

Skillfully re-editing the testimonies captured by foreign journalists, with contemporary reflections shared with director Göran Hugo Olsson, The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. "I am not trying to tell the story about the Black Power movement," Olsson clarified in a Huffington Post interview, "I'm telling the story of how it was perceived in Sweden. So it's an outsider's look, from outsiders' material." Co-produced by Danny Glover (Louveture Films), the Sundance award-winning combines music, startling 16mm footage (lying undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for 30 years), and contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars such as Angela Davis (pictured above). The film features: Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Eldrige Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, Louis Farrakhan, John Forté, Robin Kelley, Talib Kweli, Abiodun Oyewole, Sonia Sanchez, Bobby Seale, Questlove, Melvin Van Peebles, and Stokely Carmichael among others.