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

Name: How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And Enjoy It)
Genre: https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/id4405
Released: 2006-01-20T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 2
Cast: Melvin Van Peebles, Spike Lee, St. Clair Bourne, Elvis Mitchell, Gordon Parks

- Critics Consensus 92%
- CC

- Documentary
- 1 Hour 24 Minutes
- 2006
- 2.0 • 1 Rating

A prolific and multi-talented artist, Melvin Van Peebles boasts a life story as provocative and category-defying as the best of his work. A pioneer in film, music, and beyond, Van Peebles made his name with Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, the controversial 1971 feature he self-produced outside of the Hollywood system, indelibly changing the face of independent cinema and launching the Blaxploitation era. Playfully chronicling Van Peebles’ astonishing and unexpected journey comprised of, among a long list of accomplishments, turns as an Air Force pilot, Broadway playwright, French novelist, Wall Street trader and civil rights activist, this award-winning documentary illuminates an artist and man whose groundbreaking impact on film, politics and pop culture remains as relevant as ever.

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A prolific and multi-talented artist, Melvin Van Peebles boasts a life story as provocative and category-defying as the best of his work. A pioneer in film, music, and beyond, Van Peebles made his name with Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, the controversial 1971 feature he self-produced outside of the Hollywood system, indelibly changing the face of independent cinema and launching the Blaxploitation era. Playfully chronicling Van Peebles’ astonishing and unexpected journey comprised of, among a long list of accomplishments, turns as an Air Force pilot, Broadway playwright, French novelist, Wall Street trader and civil rights activist, this award-winning documentary illuminates an artist and man whose groundbreaking impact on film, politics and pop culture remains as relevant as ever.