REDISCOVERING
FANON
ABOUT
"We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe."
- Frantz Fanon. 1963
"I can't breathe."
- Eric Garner. 2014
REDISCOVERING
FANON
a Rico Speight Film
Rediscovering Fanon spotlights the peril of Black lives under systemic racism in the U.S. and across the globe, refracted through the revolutionary lens of psychiatrist and anti-colonial thinker Frantz Fanon — whose writings inspired The Battle of Algiers and shaped the Black Panther Party.
Featuring interviews with Fanon’s daughter Mireille Fanon-Mendès-France, his son Olivier Fanon, and leading scholars such as Lewis R. Gordon and Dr. Alice Cherki, the film revisits tragedies from Trayvon Martin to George Floyd and the January 6 Capitol attack. It reflects on Fanon’s life while underscoring his fierce opposition to racism, his call for liberation, and his vision of a new humanity.
Blending interviews, archives, dramatizations, and music by Tupac Shakur and Nina Simone, and score by jazz pianist, Lafayette Harris, this independent social-justice documentary revives Fanon’s revolutionary humanism for a new generation.
DIRECTOR Rico Speight
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Rico Speight is a filmmaker, producer-director, writer, and educator whose work spans film, television, and theater.
His documentaries include The People United, Who’s Gonna Take the Weight?, Where Are They Now?, and New Generation.
His narrative projects include Defiant (starring David Adams and Jeffrey White), Choices (Hillary Martin Jones, Samuel Jackson), and Adjunct’s Agony.
His theater directing credits include Aimé Césaire’s A Season in the Congo and Robeson and Dunham: Art & Activism 101.
An IATSE editor, his editing credits include Reggie Life’s Reunion (Denzel Washington), William Greaves’ Frederick Douglass: An American Life, Spookies (by Brendan Faulkner and Thomas Doran), and Josephine Meets the Sky (by Virginia Rankin).
He has served as a Control Room Director at CUNY TV, NYU-TV, and WGBH-TV, and has taught film and television production, editing, aesthetics, and control-room directing at Sarah Lawrence College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NYU School of Professional Studies, Pratt Institute, Hunter College, City College of New York, Third World Newsreel, and the New York African Film Festival.
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Email: info@rediscoveringfanon.com
Third World Newsreel
Third World Newsreel (TWN) is an alternative media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color and social justice issues.