Director: Raoul Peck
Producers: Rémi Grellety, Raoul Peck, Hébert Peck
Production co: Velvet Film
Writer: Raoul Peck, James Baldwin
Photography: Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Editor: Alexandra Strauss
Music: Alexei Aigui
Narrator: Samuel L. Jackson
REVIEW
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“Whatever you think about the past and future of what used to be called ‘race relations’ – white supremacy and the resistance to it, in plainer English – this movie will make you think again, and may even change your mind. Though its principal figure, the novelist, playwright and essayist James Baldwin, is a man who has been dead for nearly 30 years, you would be hard-pressed to find a movie that speaks to the present moment with greater clarity and force, insisting on uncomfortable truths and drawing stark lessons from the shadows of history…

To call I Am Not Your Negro a movie about James Baldwin would be to understate [director Raoul] Peck’s achievement. It’s more of a posthumous collaboration, an uncanny and thrilling communion between the filmmaker… and his subject. The voice-over narration (read by Samuel L. Jackson) is entirely drawn from Baldwin’s work. Much of it comes from notes and letters written in the mid-1970s, when Baldwin was somewhat reluctantly sketching out a book, never to be completed, about the lives and deaths of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr… His published and unpublished words – some of the most powerful and penetrating ever assembled on the tortured subject of American identity – accompany images from old talk shows and news reports, from classic movies and from our own decidedly non-post-racial present.”

— A.O. Scott, NY Times
FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Carterton 
Friday, 1 March, 7:30pm

Palmerston North   
Monday, 11 March, 6:00pm

Whanganui 
Monday, 18 March, 7:00pm

Wellington    
Monday, 8 April, 6:15pm

Auckland   
Monday, 29 April, 6:30pm

Canterbury   
Monday, 13 May, 7:30pm

Nelson 
Thursday, 13 June, 6:00pm

Timaru   
Monday, 1 July, 7:00pm

Queenstown   
Tuesday, 30 July, 8:15pm
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Dunedin
Wednesday, 2 October, 7:30pm

New Plymouth 
Wednesday, 16 October, 6:00pm
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