On Wednesday, legendary filmmaking maverick Melvin Van Peebles died at the age of 89. Four days later, his son Mario was onstage to introduce his father’s most iconic achievement, as “Sweet ...

Mario Van Peebles has set his latest film “The Price for Freedom,” which tells the story of civil rights pioneers and NAACP organizers Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore, who were instrumental in ...

When many people ponder life’s meaning, they think beyond themselves, into the future where pehaps something they did right in their life positively impacts the next generation. Mario Van Peebles ...

Four days after Melvin Van Peebles' death, his son joined NYFF to salute his father's iconic "Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song." “This film was made at a time when you didn’t really see Black people ...