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Run time:
57 min.
"MEET MARY PLEASANT (57 min) is a unique 'performance documentary' -- a colorful look at the 19th-century African American activist/entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant, now called the Mother of Civil Rights in CA. Pleasant was a 19th-century Martin Luther King, Malcom X, and Rosa Parks combined, and she changed modern day civil rights law. Late in life scandals waged by her enemies clouded Pleasant's good name. This film clarifies and restores it.
The coloful film, screened at Cannes 08, interweaves an acclaimed one-woman enactment with beautiful photo montages and expert commentary punctuated by live re-enactments and song. "
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