Rejoice! There's A James Baldwin Documentary Coming Soon

A highly-anticipated documentary about James Baldwin is set for its world premiere at this years Toronto International Film Festival.Directed by filmmaker Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro will be based on a hypothetical book that Baldwin never got to write. According to Shadow and Act, the book Baldwin envisioned was about three important black leaders who were assassinated: Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.According to TIFF, Baldwin was unable to finish the ambitious book idea before his death, so all that remains of the idea are letters sent to his literary agent and 30 pages of preliminary notes for the book.I Am Not Your Negro will be based mostly on Baldwins notes, and will explore not only the writer and activists life, but race in America as a whole. Samuel L. Jackson narrates the film.Though a trailer has yet to be released for the documentary, TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey writes that it matches Baldwins lyrical rhetoric with rich archival footage of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.I Am Not Your Negro will debut at TIFF next month, and then screen in October at the New York Film Festival. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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