Akin Babatunde
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
En route to a party in Paris, France, Akin, a black actor from Dallas, bonds unexpectedly with Aziz, a driver from Morocco, who says his cab is the "Karaoke Taxi." As Aziz winds through the streets of Montmartre, Akin starts singing with him, much to the amazement of the filmmaker, iPhone in hand, squeezed into the back seat with his wife and son, laughing as quietly as they can as the car starts and stops and the enthusiasm of the performance intensifies....
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
For more than a century, African American artists, authors, musicians and others have traveled to Paris to liberate themselves from the racism of the United States. What made these African Americans choose France? Why were the French fascinated by African Americans? And to what extent was and is France truly colorblind?
Alan Govenar's film investigates these questions and examines racism that has plagued not only African Americans fleeing the United
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