How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company(and Enjoy It) (2005)

Screen Door Cinema

Documentary directed and written by Joe Angio. It follows Melvin Van Peebles through his illustrious musical, acting, and directing career.

<p>Multi-talented and prolific, Melvin van Peebles defies categorization, boasting a life and career as diverse and unexpected as the art he’s best known for creating. A trailblazer of the tallest order who has at turns made his living as a filmmaker, a pilot, a novelist, and a stockbroker, van Peebles was never deterred by the opportunity that failed to knock; he’d simply build his own door and get on with it. After Hollywood rejected his early filmmaking efforts, his self-produced 1971 feature film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, earned more than $10 million at the box office and indelibly changed independent cinema forever. A pioneer of rap music, a Tony-nominated playwright, and a civil rights activist then and now, van Peebles’ remarkable life story is playfully and candidly chronicled, illuminating an artist and a man whose groundbreaking impact on art, politics, and pop culture remains, forty-five years after the release of Sweet Sweetback, as relevant as ever.</p>

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