Blackface

Blackface

  • Overview
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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 1, 2015

Runtime

0h 15m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Blackface

Director

Roger Ross Williams

Description

A week before the Sinterklaas festivities on December 5, global news channel CNN is digging into the Zwarte Piet controversy with a short documentary. Blackface was made by Oscar-winning documentary maker Roger Ross Williams who said his friends in America had been shocked the first time they saw a photograph of Sinterklaas’ helper.