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Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story (2025)
Directed by Yemi Bamiro
Documentary · 1h 38m
Everyone knows the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” but few know of the man who helped popularize it. Little known Harlem based photographer - freedom fighter and activist - Kwame Brathwaite took 500,000 photos across his 70-year career, always devoted to celebrating the joy and beauty of African American life. This feature documentary tells the story of Kwame and the “Black is Beautiful” movement.
Crew
- Director
- Yemi Bamiro
- Writer
- Yemi Bamiro, Otto Burnham
- Director of Photography
- Jean-Louis Schuller
- Original Music Composer
- Kwes, Marli Wren
- Editor
- Otto Burnham
- Producer
- Ian Bonhôte, Joanna Boateng, Andrew Calof, Lizzie Gillett
Details
- Release date
- 2025-10-09
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America, United Kingdom
- Production
- Misfits Entertainment, The Creative Coalition, Wayfarer Studios, The Kwame Brathwaite Archive