2016 / documentary / 93’ / Color / status : completed / long feature-film / All Rights / French and International catalog
Told entirely in the words of James Baldwin, through both personal appearances and the text of his final unfinished book project, Director Raoul Peck’s I am Not your Negro touches on the tragic deaths of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Medgar Evers to bring powerful clarity to how the image (and reality) of Blacks in America today is fabricated and enforced.
Winner of Best Documentary at the Césars awards
Winner of Best Documentary at the BAFTA Awards
Nominee for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards
Winner of Best Documentary (People’s Choice Award) at Toronto International Film Festival
Winner of Best Documentary Film at Berlin International Film Festival
Press
“A documentary of haunting poetic force”
Variety
“Oscar-nominated nonfiction nominees take a razor-sharp eye to historic figures and issues that still resonate today”
The Hollywood Reporter
“The fantastic yet undermining power of the cinema’s racially defined image”
New Yorker
