Editor’s note: This article is derived from a conversation between Ramy Youssef and producer Maytha Alhassen and is one in a series of Deadline stories tied to the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
It’s a fairly sunny fall afternoon, and we see Farouk Hassan, the father of an Egyptian-Muslim family based in Rutherford, NJ, securing a wall mount of a USA flag, an aerial welcome mat to alarmed neighbors. In the Emmy-nominated fourth episode of the first season of Hulu’s Ramy, Farouk (played by Amr Waked) explains to his family, “The way they are looking at us. Things are different.”
For many Arab American Muslims, our September 12th vividly resembled this protection spell. Before we had a chance to grieve, to locate our missing loved ones, to wrestle with a local, national and global nightmare, we were forced to run risk-assessment diagnostics and enact those contingency plans immediately. The flag,...
It’s a fairly sunny fall afternoon, and we see Farouk Hassan, the father of an Egyptian-Muslim family based in Rutherford, NJ, securing a wall mount of a USA flag, an aerial welcome mat to alarmed neighbors. In the Emmy-nominated fourth episode of the first season of Hulu’s Ramy, Farouk (played by Amr Waked) explains to his family, “The way they are looking at us. Things are different.”
For many Arab American Muslims, our September 12th vividly resembled this protection spell. Before we had a chance to grieve, to locate our missing loved ones, to wrestle with a local, national and global nightmare, we were forced to run risk-assessment diagnostics and enact those contingency plans immediately. The flag,...
- 9/10/2021
- by Maytha Alhassen
- Deadline Film + TV
With The Help in theaters dissecting 1950′s race relations in the south, another film will take a more extensive look at the issues that follow that period, in documentary form. Goran Hugo Olsson‘s The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 debuted at Sundance this year to strong reviews and now we have our first trailer. The doc features Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, John Forté, Robin Kelley, Talib Kweli, Abiodun Oyewole, Melvin Van Peebles, Sonia Sanchez, Bobby Seale, and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. See it below via Apple.
Synopsis:
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish filmmakers, after languishing in a basement of a TV station for 30 years, into an irresistible mosaic of images, music, and narration chronicling the evolution one of our nation’s most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement. Featuring candid interviews with the movement’s most explosive revolutionary minds,...
Synopsis:
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish filmmakers, after languishing in a basement of a TV station for 30 years, into an irresistible mosaic of images, music, and narration chronicling the evolution one of our nation’s most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement. Featuring candid interviews with the movement’s most explosive revolutionary minds,...
- 8/12/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
I first saw this at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and posted my review of it soon afterward. It’s screening in New York later this month as a New Directors/New Films Festival selection (its east coast premiere). Press screenings for the Nd/Nf started this week, and I saw the film for a second time earlier this afternoon. I’ve been reviewing all the films screened at the festival, as promised; but instead of typing up a new review of this one, I’m posting my initial Sundance thoughts. So here ya go…
I think we could argue that the legacy of the Black Power Movement really hasn’t been properly placed in context. Historically vilified by some, or fetishized by others, its effect and influence on other political movements still isn’t widely acknowledged and celebrated, unlike the earlier Civil Rights Movement.
Swedish director Goran Hugo Olsson’s empowering Sundance 2011 entry,...
I think we could argue that the legacy of the Black Power Movement really hasn’t been properly placed in context. Historically vilified by some, or fetishized by others, its effect and influence on other political movements still isn’t widely acknowledged and celebrated, unlike the earlier Civil Rights Movement.
Swedish director Goran Hugo Olsson’s empowering Sundance 2011 entry,...
- 3/11/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
I think we could argue that the legacy of the Black Power Movement really hasn’t been properly placed in context. Historically vilified by some, or fetishized by others, its effect and influence on other political movements still isn’t widely acknowledged and celebrated, unlike the earlier Civil Rights Movement.
Swedish director Goran Hugo Olsson’s empowering Sundance 2011 entry, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, produced by Danny Glover, attempts to contextualizes the movement, at home and abroad, highlight its successes and failures, and note its importance today; it wants to raise awareness and reignite penetrating discussion on the movement, by introducing it to a new global generation, in a format that may be more accessible to them – the concept we call the “mixtape,” hence the title.
The story goes… the late 60s/early 70s saw Swedish interest in the Us Civil Rights Movement peak; and with a demonstrated combination of commitment and naivete,...
Swedish director Goran Hugo Olsson’s empowering Sundance 2011 entry, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, produced by Danny Glover, attempts to contextualizes the movement, at home and abroad, highlight its successes and failures, and note its importance today; it wants to raise awareness and reignite penetrating discussion on the movement, by introducing it to a new global generation, in a format that may be more accessible to them – the concept we call the “mixtape,” hence the title.
The story goes… the late 60s/early 70s saw Swedish interest in the Us Civil Rights Movement peak; and with a demonstrated combination of commitment and naivete,...
- 1/29/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
And we’re off…! As I said in my post announcing the Sundance 2011 lineup, I’ll be going over the complete list, highlighting titles that we already haven’t given coverage to, taking into consideration this blog’s specific interests.
The first is a documentary titled The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, directed by Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson, and co-produced by Danny Glover and his Louverture Films.
Its synopsis: From 1967 to 1975, Swedish journalists chronicled the Black Power movement in America. Combining that 16mm footage, undiscovered until now, with contemporary audio interviews, this film illuminates the people and culture that fueled change and brings the movement to life anew.
Included in the mix are appearances and commentary by: Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Emile de Antonio, Angela Davis, Harry Belafonte, Kathleen Cleaver, Robin Kelley, Abiodun Oyewole, Sonia Sanchez, Bobby Seale...
The first is a documentary titled The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, directed by Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson, and co-produced by Danny Glover and his Louverture Films.
Its synopsis: From 1967 to 1975, Swedish journalists chronicled the Black Power movement in America. Combining that 16mm footage, undiscovered until now, with contemporary audio interviews, this film illuminates the people and culture that fueled change and brings the movement to life anew.
Included in the mix are appearances and commentary by: Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Emile de Antonio, Angela Davis, Harry Belafonte, Kathleen Cleaver, Robin Kelley, Abiodun Oyewole, Sonia Sanchez, Bobby Seale...
- 12/2/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Robin Kelley's superb biography brings the Thelonious Monk story back from the ragged edge to the creative center of American music. And it brings my reading year to a blessedly loving, gorgeously swinging, dissonant, modernist, and utterly one-off climactic note. There may be another jazz biography as thickly detailed, as audibly lyrical, as passionate, as thrilling as this one, but I can't bring it to mind. There's a vastly detailed, fresh take here on an immortal jazz pianist and composer whose life is often remembered as freakish, at best impossibly mysterious. Not that jazz players hadn't known from the early 1940s that young Monk was a giant, and ever afterward that those odd, distinctive Monk tunes (nearly 100 of them) are the exotic orchid-like treasures of the American song book. But this was...
- 12/23/2009
- by Christopher Lydon
- Huffington Post
Maybe J.G. will set the record straight on a certain tabloid rumor tonight...
Daytime:
"Today": Queen Latifah
"Live with Regis and Kelly": Meg Ryan, Jackie, Jermaine, Tito & Marlon Jackson, guest co-host Anderson Cooper
"The View": Queen Latifah, Mike Huckabee
"The Bonnie Hunt Show": Seth Green, Nikki Reed
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show": Tobey Maguire, a performance from Cirque du Soleil's "Kooza"
"Rachael Ray Show": Kristin Chenoweth
"The Oprah Show": Dr. Phil (repeat)
"The Martha Stewart Show": Jamie Oliver
"It's On with Alexa Chung": Peter Facinelli, The Big Pink
"The Tyra Banks Show": "Sesame Street," Jeff Leatham
Late Night:
"The Jay Leno Show": Morgan Freeman, Maxwell
"Late Show with David Letterman": Tina Fey, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, Mika (repeat)
"The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien": John Travolta, Rod Stewart
"Jimmy Kimmel Live": Jake Gyllenhaal, Ashley Greene, Honor...
Daytime:
"Today": Queen Latifah
"Live with Regis and Kelly": Meg Ryan, Jackie, Jermaine, Tito & Marlon Jackson, guest co-host Anderson Cooper
"The View": Queen Latifah, Mike Huckabee
"The Bonnie Hunt Show": Seth Green, Nikki Reed
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show": Tobey Maguire, a performance from Cirque du Soleil's "Kooza"
"Rachael Ray Show": Kristin Chenoweth
"The Oprah Show": Dr. Phil (repeat)
"The Martha Stewart Show": Jamie Oliver
"It's On with Alexa Chung": Peter Facinelli, The Big Pink
"The Tyra Banks Show": "Sesame Street," Jeff Leatham
Late Night:
"The Jay Leno Show": Morgan Freeman, Maxwell
"Late Show with David Letterman": Tina Fey, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, Mika (repeat)
"The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien": John Travolta, Rod Stewart
"Jimmy Kimmel Live": Jake Gyllenhaal, Ashley Greene, Honor...
- 12/3/2009
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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