Melvin Van Peebles, pioneer and critic of Blaxploitation films, dies at 89
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dailymail.co.ukMelvin Van Peebles, the influential filmmaker behind the 70s blaxploitation film Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song and father of director and actor Mario Van Peebles, has died at 89.'Dad knew that Black images matter,' Mario Van Peebles said in a statement from the Criterion Collection.'If a picture is worth a thousand words, what was a movie worth?
We want to be the success we see, thus we need to see ourselves being free.'True liberation did not mean imitating the colonizer's mentality.
It meant appreciating the power, beauty and interconnectivity of all people.' Visionary:Melvin Van Peebles, the influential filmmaker behind the 70s blaxploitation film Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song and father of director and actor Mario Van Peebles, has.
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