Mario Van Peebles directs and stars in this docudrama about his father Melvin Van Peebles. The movie tells the story of how Melvin went about creating the first truly independent African-American film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The drama is beyond anything that could be made up. Roadblocks of all sorts keep popping up: from Union workers stopping production, SAG fees making the use of those actors totally cost prohibitive, the money-man being arrested, no distribution company daring to even touch it, etc. It's an incredible and a true tribute to the man who would never give up.
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