Join Rio Cinema for a double bill of films by the late pioneering filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. Including his films The Story of a Three-Day Pass and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The screening is a tribute to director, writer, composer, actor, and one-man creative revolutionary Melvin van Peebles a transformative artist whose caustic social observation, radical formal innovation established a new cinematic model for Black creative independence.