The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75 ranks #10 at Melbourne International Film Festival
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75 has ranked impressively at #10 in a People’s Choice poll at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).
Distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Curious, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75 is a documentary about the black power movement in the United States.
It uses archive footage by Swedish journalists to capture the political hysteria and activism of the era, and ranked 10th alongside some of the world’s top documentaries in the Top 20 People’s Choice poll (documentary category) at MIFF.
Curious presented four films at this year’s MIFF, which ran for two weeks until 7th August: Black Power Mix Tapes, Norwegian Wood, Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Toomelah.
Toomelah also ranked 12th in the Top 20 People’s Choice poll in the Features category against some stiff competition.
The film is set in one of Australia’s most impoverished Aboriginal communities and tells the tale of 10 year-old Daniel, who falls in with a local drug dealer’s crew.
Toomelah was named 12th in the People’s Choice poll for Features amongst some of the most celebrated films of 2011, such as MIFF’s #1 ranking feature film Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, which also cleaned up at the Berlinale awards winning Best Film, Best Actor and Best Actress.
Says Matt Noonan, executive producer at Curious: “It’s only been a year or so since Curious first began distributing films, but we seem to have a knack for choosing independent films that resonate with local audiences. The fact that two of our films made the People’s Choice rankings at MIFF this year shows that we’re bringing some colour and diversity to the local film landscape.”