Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro Gets Oscar-Qualifying One-Week Run On Dec. 9Posted by Wilson Morales
November 22, 2016
Magnolia Pictures has partnered with Maysles Cinema and Metrograph in New York, and Cinemark Baldwin Hills in Los Angeles for a special one-week only advance preview of director Raoul Peck’s I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO, beginning December 9, it was announced today. The stunning documentary based on James Baldwin’s unfinished book, REMEMBER THIS HOUSE, will then receive a nationwide theatrical release in 25 markets on February 3. Amazon Studios has acquired the exclusive streaming rights to the film.
“I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is a singular, essential film that has received rapturous responses at every one of our screenings this fall,” said Eamonn Bowles, President of Magnolia Pictures. “Given the current social climate, we are planning one of our most aggressive theatrical releases ever for a documentary.”
Throughout the one-week run in December, each cinema will host a series of discussions around screenings of the film, bringing together a panel of artists, academics, politicians, activists and organizers (to be named), joined by Peck, to provoke ideas on the impactful ways James Baldwin’s life and work can be applied to current social justice efforts.
REMEMBER THIS HOUSE is one of the great incomplete works of American literature, where Baldwin attempted to recount the lives and successive assassinations of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr; Baldwin’s notes and the unfinished manuscript were entrusted to Peck (LUMUMBA, MURDER IN PACOT, SOMETIMES IN APRIL) by the Baldwin estate. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO turns the 30 pages of REMEMBER THIS HOUSE that Baldwin wrote before his passing in 1987 into an American epic of murders, martyrs, politics and race.
While steeped in the stories of the struggles for racial and economic equality in the ’50s and ’60s, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO also takes a sweeping, challenging look at how our collective past has shaped our attitudes about race in our complex present.
