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.
Unfortunately the movie Black Is… Black Ain’t is not yet available on Disney Plus.
Directing | Marlon Riggs | Director |
Editing | Christiane Badgley | Editor |
Camera | Robert Shepard | Director of Photography |
Production | Marlon Riggs | Producer |
Production | Nicole Atkinson | Co-Producer |
Directing | Christiane Badgley | Co-Director |
Editing | Bob Paris | Co-Editor |
Sound | Sekou Shepard | Sound Recordist |
Production | Jasmine Dellal | Associate Producer |
Editing | Jasmine Dellal | Assistant Editor |
Editing | Tanya Phipps | Assistant Editor |
Editing | Sam Green | Assistant Editor |
Crew | Bill T. Jones | Choreographer |
Sound | Mary Watkins | Music |
Camera | Michael Chin | Additional Photography |
Camera | Emiko Omori | Additional Photography |
Camera | Jasmine Dellal | Additional Photography |
Camera | Bob Paris | Additional Photography |