OLYMPIC PRIDE, AMERICAN PREJUDICE restitue la vie de 18 athlètes olympiques africains-américains (16 hommes et deux femmes) qui ont défié Jim Crow et Adolf Hitler en gagnant les coeurs et des médailles aux Jeux Olympiques de 1936 à Berlin. Ils représentaient un pays qui les considéraient comme des citoyens de second ordre et participaient dans un pays qui se voyait dérouler le tapis rouge en dépit du fait de prôner la supériorité aryenne et l’anti-Sémitisme.

Un film de Deborah Riley Draper

USA, 2016, Documentaire, 1h20 minutes

avec Carl Lewis, Anita DeFrantz, Isiah Thomas, Lonnie Bunch, Harry Edwards



Scénariste et Réalisatrice : Deborah Riley Draper
Voix de commentaire : Blair Underwood
Producteurs délégués : Dr. Amy Tiemann, Michael A. Draper et Blair Underwood

Production : Coffee Bluff Pictures (www.coffeebluffpictures)

Film en salles le 5 août 2016, à New York et Los Angeles.

Pré-acheter le DVD sur Amazon :
https://www.amazon.com/Olympic-Pride-American-Prejudice-Underwood/dp/B01JBAQA3U


Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Date de sortie du DVD : 6 Décember 2016
Durée : 80 minutes

Page officielle :
https://www.facebook.com/1936OlympicsMovie/

OLYMPIC PRIDE, AMERICAN PREJUDICE explores the experiences of 18 African American Olympians who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to win hearts and medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Set against the strained and turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided America, which was torn between boycotting Hitler’s Olympics or participating in the Third Reich’s grandest affair, the film follows 16 men and two women before, during and after their heroic turn at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. They represented a country that considered them second class citizens and competed in a country that rolled out the red carpet in spite of an undercurrent of Aryan superiority and anti-Semitism.

They were world heroes yet returned home to a short-lived glory. This story is complicated. This story is triumphant but unheralded. This story is a vital part of history and is as relevant today as it was almost 80 years ago.

Since the 1936 Olympics was a well-documented event, this film will utilize the wealth of newsreel material, newspaper articles, photographs, personal interviews and never-before-seen footage as well as resources from the personal archival collections of Olympians and organizations in both the U.S. and Germany.

A film by Deborah Riley Draper

USA, 2016, Documentary, 80 minutes

starring Carl Lewis, Anita DeFrantz, Isiah Thomas, Lonnie Bunch, Harry Edwards



Writer and director: Deborah Riley Draper
Narrated by Blair Underwood
Executive producers: Dr. Amy Tiemann, Michael A. Draper and Blair Underwood

The film is produced by Coffee Bluff Pictures (www.coffeebluffpictures)

Film in theatres starting August 5th, 2016, in New York and LA.

Pre-order DVD on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Olympic-Pride-American-Prejudice-Underwood/dp/B01JBAQA3U

Studio: Gravitas Ventures
DVD Release Date: December 6, 2016
Run Time: 80 minutes