Melvin Van Peebles, a trailblazing director who helped champion a new wave of modern Black cinema in the 1970s, has died, his son says. He was 89.
Van Peebles, father of actor and director Mario Van Peebles, died at his home on Tuesday night, according to a statement shared on social media."Dad knew that Black images matter. 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," Mario Van Peebles said of his father's work in a statement."True liberation did not mean imitating the colonizer's mentality.
— Barry Jenkins September 22, 2021 "Moonlight" director Barry Jenkins shared a memory of the last time the two filmmakers were together."He made the most of every second, of EVERY single damn frame and admittedly, while the last time I spent any time with him was MANY years ago, it was a night in which he absolutely danced his face off," Jenkins wrote in a tweet."The man just absolutely LIVED.
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