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I Am Not Your Negro is documentary film that released in 2016 directed by Raoul Peck. Based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript that narrated by famous actor Samuel L. Jackson with a tittle Remember This House. A film that tell a journey of black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. Also a film that questioning black representation in Hollywood and beyond. This film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards and won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.
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Synopsis
The film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as his personal observations of American History.
Release
The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the [Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award: Documentaries]. Not long after it, Magnolia Pictures and Amazon Studios acquired distribution rights to the film. Then it was released for an Oscar-qualifying run on December 9,2016, before re-opening on February 3, 2017.
Message
I Am Not Your Negro review: race, rage and the American Dream. Raoul Peck's fluid documentary uses the timeless anger of James Baldwin to animate his history of the black experience in America, from Hollywood stereotypes to police brutality.
Reference
[1] [2] bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations