How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)

Starring: Peebles, Melvin Van

Multi-talented and prolific, Melvin van Peebles defies categorization, boasting a life and career as diverse and unexpected as the art he's best known for creating. A trailblazer of the tallest order who has at turns made his living as a filmmaker, a pilot, a novelist and a stockbroker, van Peebles was never deterred by opportunity that failed to knock; he'd simply build his own door and get on with it. After Hollywood rejected his early filmmaking efforts, his self-produced 1971 feature film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, earned more than $10 million at the box office and indelibly changed independent cinema forever. A pioneer of rap music, a Tony-nominated playwright and a civil rights activist then and now, van Peebles' remarkable life story is playfully and candidly chronicled, illuminating an artist and a man whose groundbreaking impact on art, politics and pop culture remains, forty-five years after the release of Sweet Sweetback, as relevant as ever.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 014381400724
• Release Date: March 2002
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Image/Sphe
• Director: Angio, Joe
• Starring: Peebles, Melvin Van
• Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Multiple Formats; Color; Dolby; NTSC; Widescreen
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"