Adjust Your Color: Petey Green
Part of the BAMcinématek series Afro-Punk Festival
Fri, Jul 3 at 2pm*
Wed, Jul 8 at 4:30pm
Introduction by director Loren Mendell
Directed by Loren Mendell
Narrated by Don Cheadle
(2008) 60min
"...an admiring and often amusing portrait of the late Washington, D.C., radio and TV talkshow host..." —Variety
This fascinating documentary reveals the ex-convict and original shock-jock Petey Greene, the man who brought topics such as racism, sex, and drug abuse uncensored to his TV and radio programs in the 70s and early 80s.
With Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Directed by Dawn Logsdon
(2008) 68min
This documentary charts the cultural history of one of America’s oldest black neighborhoods, Faubourg Treme, which gave birth to jazz and helped launch the Civil Rights movement.
Variety on Adjust Your Color: Petey Green
"Concise and technically proficient, Mendell's doc persuasively makes a case for viewing Petey Greene as, at the very least, some kind of local hero." More