ACMI presents I Am Not Your Negro

Following sold out screenings at the Melbourne International Film Festival, ACMI is excited to announce the Academy Award® nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro will be screening at ACMI Cinemas from 11 September. Alongside this exclusive season, ACMI will present a unique series of thought-provoking events discussing race relations, resistance and identity in modern Australia.

From acclaimed director Raoul Peck (The Man by the Shore, Lumumba, Murder in Pacot), I Am Not Your Negro brings to life Remember This House, the unfinished manuscript of American novelist and intellectual James Baldwin. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, this blistering film shares Baldwin's personal experience of racism as considered through the lens of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr.

A most expertly crafted documentary of recent times I Am Not Your Negro offers crucial insights into the history of racism in the United States and acts as a stirring call to action against injustice in modern America and beyond. Director Raoul Peck says; 'Never before has Baldwin's voice been so needed, so powerful, so radical, so visionary."

ACMI's Head of Film Programs, James Hewison says; 'A deeply personal memoir about the revolutionary James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro is made by iconoclast filmmaker, Raoul Peck. This Academy Award®-nominated documentary serves as a rallying point to not only chronicle the seismic impact of the US Civil Rights movement but also to bear witness to Baldwin's considered yet razor-sharp activism and demands of its audience to ask profound questions of race relations today, not just in the U.S. but indeed Australia in 2017."