Black Zombie

Feature documentary. CBC.

Official Selection: SXSW, Hot Docs, Thin Line Fest, Margaret Mead Film Festival, CUFF, MFF‍ ‍‍ ‍

“Movie zombies didn’t begin with George A. Romero — the walking dead have haunted cinema since the medium’s early days. Their cultural roots not only predate Hollywood’s dream factory by decades, however, but can be traced to the fields of Haiti, where a mix of homegrown religion and European colonialism helped give birth to surprisingly malleable horror-movie staple. Documentarian Maya Annik Bedward digs into the way the concept of undead bodies shambling among us has been used, abused and exploited over the years, as well as mounting a reclamation of the screen zombie as a figure of resistance. The SXSW screenings will be BYOB (Bring Your Own Brains).”

— David Fear Rolling Stone