The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Synopsis

The Black Power Mixtape is an archive- and music- driven documentary that examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the African-American community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. Combining startlingly fresh and meaningful 16mm footage that had been lying undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for the past 30 years, with contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars, Mixtape looks at the people, society, culture and style that fuelled a change. The Black Power Mixtape is a cinematic and musical journey into the ghettos of America.

Director Biography

Born 1965 in Lund, Sweden. Olsson was educated at the Royal University of Fine Arts in
Stockholm after film studies at Stockholm University. He is a Documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and manufacturer of his own innovation - the A-cam, a Super-16 film camera.