Bobby Seale Is Frustrated by Lack of Involvement In Black Panther Films, Produces His Own
Black Panther Party Founders Bobby Seale (left) and Huey Newton (right)
Black Panther Party co-founder, Bobby Seale, is showcasing the legacy of the organization he and Huey Newton initially formed to protect the Black community from police brutality in a new cinematic film.
In a press release distributed to media contacts, Seale is hoping to raise $420,000 to begin production of the cinematic life story of the Black Panthers and himself. He has launched a fundraising campaign on IndieGogo.com to help acquire the funding needed to push the project forward. You can donate to the project by clicking here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/266927
The film, which is slated to be filmed this year, is titled Seize The Time, The Eighth Defendant, which is also the title of Seale’s autobiography, already has a script written by Seale and former Black Panther Party member Stephen Edwards. The duo had been shopping the project as a feature-length documentary, but have taken the advice of a Fox Searchlight executive to make it a scripted, drama-filled feature film instead.
Seale says he decided to produce his own cinematic life story because of his frustrations with past films that have been made about the Black Panther Party without his involvement. ”They usually contact me after they have made their film… and often want me to endorse it. I want to do this until I see the final product. Its painful to see the waste of money, resources and talent on film projects that don’t convey the complete story of what happened during the days of the Black Panther Party and the sixties protest movement… There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked us and why. Even people of my generation don’t know that J. Edgar Hoover said the Black Panthers Breakfast for Children program represents the greatest threat to America’s national security… most people don’t know that we won 95 % of our courtroom cases.”
Here’s a description of the film:
“Seize The Time; The Eighth Defendant ” will give its audience a glimpse into the life of Bobby Seale and the social protest movements of the 1960’s and 70’s…The film will also highlight situations in which the Panthers prevailed. Bobby says, “For example, most people don’t know that we won 95 % of our courtroom cases.” Many social programs today go back to the survival programs of the Black Panther Party. And the struggle for justice for African American and minority youth in the face of police oppression is unfortunately as relevant today as it was when Bobby and Huey first took up their rifles and law books to protest police brutality.
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I’ll support this brother in a heart beat! Bobby Rush, who is now a politician in Chicago, should help this brother, since he was a former member. I’m pretty safe to say, he will have no dealings with the movie, since he is now involved in poliTRICKS.
By the way…where’s Spike Lee and the other film makers? They should ‘money up’ to help this brother.
ORGANIZE AND UNITE -Stokely Carmichael
You took the words out of my mouth! Big mouth Spike Lee has no problem demeaning Tyler Perry but when a film of of this magitude needs support you can’t find him! I remember the Black Panthers very well and helped with the free lunch program and listen as they educated us high schoolers to our history! So come on you famous black actors, rich rappers and producers help him show todays gerneration the real story of the black panthers!
Sabrina Lamb, is nothing but another jealous devil worshipping Haitian, who will stoop to any kind of level to hurt a black american person.
Black Americans need to stop being duped with this “we all one black people” lie. All the while they pretend to want black unity, foreign blacks are plotting the downfall of a successful black american person. They are only out for themselves and their ethnic group.
One black american Miami blogger said the following and she is right on the money:
I cant stand the arrogance and hateration from some immigrants, particularly Haitians, especially because they ARE black. There should be a kinship there, but they will eat their young (if not 100% Haitian of course) to get ahead of us. Black americans can identify with Haitians, or any minoroties for that matter, in the struggle as a minority, but for some reason they can not identify with us. They even use that to their advantage when it benefits them looking for benefits for “we black people”, but the truth is they will do any and every underhanded thing toward an american black, even backstabbing us in favor of whites, its rediculous. My neighborhood was primarily Haitians where I grew up. The part of town I lived in we all nicknamed ‘little Haiti’ for all the Haitians there, so I am not talking about what I don’t know or out of just a few interactions with them. I wish I could say different. For their attitude, and their usery, I say send them all back, we dont need that mess here to confuse and divide anymore.
Violence against women was a problem in Haiti long before the earthquake, with rape only recognized as a crime in 2005. The earthquake has only increased the dangers for women and girls, though, and they will live with that increased risk for many months, if not years, to come.
Single parenting, widespread in Haiti, is well accepted and closely tied to the issue of concubines. In Haitian society, a well-accepted practice is for men to have a wife and a mistress, the latter relationship is referred to as placage. Both women bear children. The mistress raises her children alone and with minimal support from the father. These children are often known by the man’s family but are not known to the wife. Haitian women in general know that their husbands are involved outside the home and pretend not to know. Health education, birth control, and safe s*x are issues that should be approached with sensitivity and acceptance within cultural boundaries.
Sabrina Lamb needs to concentrate on her own pathetic excuse for a culture
THE PANTHERS were definitely a topic of conversation…as they made history. They did a lot of deeds that changed the course of the movement. This movie should be very informative…because those times were heated with all sorts of Civil Rights activities, protests, rebellions, and such. Part of what is wrong with a lot of people is they are ignorant of our culture and history…espec. BLACK HISTORY. So they get caught up in a lot of nonsense. Our youth should tune in to learn more about what has happened in the past to our people…so that they can learn lessons…that might help them these days.
Interesting!
This sounds brilliant .I read the book when a teenager ,and saw them as very brave men .
And women.
I don’t believe there are any greater men on the face of the earth than black men we have experienced the worst kinds of treatment exposed to human kind.
Bobby and a lot of the original Panthers have been the ones who did not want to cooperate with these other folks. It is back to the same problems that came up lately about the movie Lenny Kravitz is trying to make about his life. They want control of everything without producing the movie themself. They never consider the business or the art of making a successful movie. The get into this battle over making an authentic story by their vision. So collaborating with an original person is very tough. Plus, the politics of what things can be in the movie is usually ignored by people like Bobby Seale.
Correction: The movie Lenny Kravitz is trying to make about Marvin Gaye’s life.
We need black panthers more so now than ever. Bobby seal why u don’t start a real panther movement now,do you realize how many black women and men need you
That is totally unrealistic for Bobby Seal. He has to be about 75 to 77 years old by now. Plus, they have a New Black Panther Party ran by Malik Shabazz. And Bobby or non of the original Panthers will recognized or work them. Boy, we black folks are giving to pettiness and silliness. We do not tend to work together very well. But we always hold onto to these past unrealitites for today.
Now this movie i would go and see most definetly.
Brother Maurice Muhammad,
Eldrige Cleaver currently is not a member of any party since he passed away in 1998. God rest his soul.
Also Brother Muhammad
I think we have to remember that brothers such as Cleaver and Seal and such have sacrificed much of their own personal well being for others. If they get to a point when they feel the need to hand the reigns over to the next generation I believe they have earned that right. So has Al Sharpton!!!!!
The movie DJANGO UNCHAINED has stirred up a lot of controversy. It is a violent movie. I am more bothered by the fact that a company has started selling “Django dolls or action figures.” And I am not alone… Rev. Al Sharpton and others are starting a BOYCOTT of these DOLLS and toys.
It seems like we are going back to the days when they used to sell: pictures of ‘Black folks slobbering over watermelon’… “Little Black Sambo” books, and trinkets that look like men in “black face”… lawn jockeys, and the post cards with pictures of lynchings on them.
We have BARBIE’S DOLL HOUSE…so why not have a toy plantation house …with the figurines of massa whippin’ a slave…???? Or why not a toy SLAVE SHIP ???
SERIOUSLY…this is over-board, insulting and just crass commercialism. It also seems to be glorifying more violence. BOYCOTT this mess.
We have serious problems….unemployment, sickness, gang wars…shootings… school failings, climate change…etc. — AND THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE DOING ???
ENOUGH OF THE STUPID STUFF !!!
Why are they not helping to finance and marketing something educational…about THE HEROES, LEADERS, ACHIEVERS of Black History ?
I can not wait until this comes out. Tell our OWN stories. I believe Spike Lee will help.(crossing my fingers). Oprah? Tyler? We can help too, if all of us give a little, this project can happen. @ Greg, if the story is authentic, the politics of things have to be ignored
I most definitely WILL be supporting Mr. Seale in this project.
I will get involve and support being from Monroe where Newton was from. I say no one can tell YOUR story like YOU.
@@Desha…… Exactly
I’d be happy to help support Bobby Seale.
Hotep, To All My African-American Sisters & Brothers.
As a M.I.R.( Mouvement International Pour Les Réparations )excecutif member of Martinique, West Indies, I will be very glad and happy to help support Our Honorable Black Panther Party Founder Brother Bobby SEALE.
Kwame GEBRE-MEDHIN.
M.I.R. Nasyon MATINIK
TRIED TO CONTRIBUTE BUT THE LINK WON’T COMPLETE THE INITIAL TRANSACTION. I WISH OUR YOUNG MEN WOULD SPEND TIME AND RESEARCH THE MAKINGS OF THE BLACK PANTHERS, IT MAY INSPIRE SOME OF THEM, AND WOMEN TOO. THE PANTHERS WERE DOING WHAT EVERY WHITE GROUP IS DOING RIGHT NOW. EMBRACING THEIR UNIQUE RIGHTS TO OUR COUNTRY. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!!
@ BRO Ajabu …I always knew u still was a student of the Nguzu Saba ….Fellow truth seeker. ..Hotep
I definitely will be supporting this film both by contribution and by seeing it. I was a great admirer of the Black Panthers in my youth.
I’m going to donate right now,I can’t wait for the movie.
Ethnichate we will get this because for one Most of these ignorant Blacks make grave mistakes in dealing with these Devils because they Manipulate & Divide the people of God! If you Black & don’t know who the Whiteman is just read their History Written in the Blood of all Humanity! Some Negroes don’t want to see other Black people free! Too much self hate going on White Supremacy has run it’s course & is BS! You have to be a sad Human Being to Never Love yourself! All of us Blacks no matter our Location are like Frankenstein & Frankensteinia lol We Black with White Minds! Stick together because Black American Racism was far worst Mentally! We don’t pick-up liberation Quick enough,Carribean Blacks pick this up Quicker,if you were in the Carribean you might think that you was in Africa! We had some or more freedoms to be Africans then in America! In the End Sister Black is Black & we all share this Burden,Black America learn from others Stick Together! Stop being a Slave because in the End Black is Black American Jamaican Aboriginal Haitian Cuban Dominacano Puerto Rician Brazilian Bermia Moors keep it 100%
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I would definitely throw dollars at this project. Better R.O.I than some g*****n Obama campaign promise. If you or your family eats at McDonald’s/KFC/Burger King 3x/week or more and you make less than $10/hr. You know what I am trying to get at.