African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes. The film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the black community, with snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay slurs from popular hip-hop songs juxtaposed with interviews with African-American intellectuals and political theorists, including Cornel West, bell hooks and Angela Davis.
Marlon Riggs | Director |
Christiane Badgley | Editor |
Robert Shepard | Director of Photography |
Marlon Riggs | Producer |
Nicole Atkinson | Co-Producer |
Christiane Badgley | Co-Director |
Bob Paris | Co-Editor |
Sekou Shepard | Sound Recordist |
Jasmine Dellal | Associate Producer |
Jasmine Dellal | Assistant Editor |