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Black Dynamite

Midnight Screenings 2009 / Black Dynamite / USA 2009

A feared martial arts champion and breaker of women’s hearts is out to take revenge on the Man for his brother’s death and for supplying heroin to the local orphanage. This tribute and outstandingly entertaining parody of the 1970s blaxploitation genre was a huge hit with viewers at this year’s Sundance festival.

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Synopsis

Panic is spreading through the ghetto. The Man supplies the local orphanage with heroin and distributes adulterated malt liquor, both with disastrous consequences. After the Man gets revenge on one of his dealers, the victim’s brother comes on the scene, the admired and feared eponymous hero Black Dynamite. Seeking vengeance, he equips himself with firearms, nunchucks, and irresistibly scathing remarks. Thirty years after the most famous blaxploitation films, Scott Sanders has shot a tribute to the genre that is also an outstanding parody. The filmmakers poke fun at many a cliché, and the strong satiric undertones guarantee that this flick will please those who’ve never even heard of the cult movies Shaft or Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song. One of the biggest audience hits of this year’s Sundance festival, the movie stars Michael Jai White – actor, screenwriter, and black belt in seven styles of martial art.

About the film

83 min / Color, 35 mm

Director Scott Sanders / Screenplay Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Scott Sanders / Dir. of Photography Shawn Maurer / Music Adrian Younge / Editor Adrian Younge / Producer Jon Steingart / Production Ars Nova / Cast Michael Jai White, Obba Babatunde, Kevin Chapman, Tommy Davidson, Byron Minns, Salli Richardson-Whitfield / Contact T&C Pictures Int'l, Aerofilms / Distributor Aerofilms
www: www.blackdynamite.com

About the director

Scott Sanders

Scott Sanders, screenwriter and director, debuted in 1999 with the feature film Thick as Thieves featuring Alec Baldwin and Michael Jai White, who earned acting, writing, and story credits for Black Dynamite. Sanders is also a highly popular Los Angeles DJ, mixing under the name Suckapunch.

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T&C Pictures Int'l
3122 Santa Monica Blvd, Ste 200, CA 90404, Santa Monica
United States of America
Phone: +1 310 828 7801
Fax: +1 310 828 7804
E-mail: [email protected]

Aerofilms
Milady Horákové 383/79, 170 00, Praha 7
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 224 947 566
E-mail: [email protected]

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Scott Sanders
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Zuzana Pudilová
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Ivo Andrle
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