Raoul Peck’s ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Revisits James Baldwin
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‘I Am Not Your Negro,’ a documentary film on James Baldwin, as envisioned by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, has opened in the United States to considerable acclaim.
Based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House and narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of race relations in the United States through Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr, among others. The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award in the documentary category. It has now been nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary, alongside two other films, 13th and OJ: Made in America, that cap a comparative strong year for filmmaking aspects of the black experience.
Official Trailer for Film, I Am Not Your Negro
