About the film
Afro-Punk (2003) is a 66-minute documentary film directed by James Spooner, exploring the roles of African Americans within what was then an overwhelmingly white punk scene across the United States—and taking place as the world shifted with the galvanizing power of the internet. The film focuses on the lives of four African American youths dedicated to the underground music and punk rock lifestyle, interspersed with interviews from scores of black punk rockers from all over the United States. Fans of the film and the music inspired an alternative movement, that was later interpreted for the annual Afropunk Festival beginning in 2005.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).