financing, on and on. what did he do for black cinema and independent film sng. >> as a kid, i grew up on that film. i was learning about editing, we were learning about acting. when you grow up with melvin van peeples' filmmaking family, you learned it all. dad would say, i don't know much about baseball, but i want to see you on a team. so he did a movie and it was about a black sex worker who wanted consciousness. they didn't want that, but they wanted a revolutionary movie. they did it black and called it "shaft" and after that came "super fly." it was a great film in many ways but it did sort of make drug dealing look hip, and that hurt