Actor-filmmaker Mario Van Peebles remembers hosting a state-of-the-union meeting at his house in Los Angeles of many of the key black American filmmakers of the day.
The 47-year-old Van Peebles -- the Mexico City-born son of pioneering black filmmaker and activist Melvin Van Peebles -- saw men much like himself as he surveyed the other faces in the room, from Reginald Hudlin to John Singleton.
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