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Kristopher Bowers (born April 5, 1989) is an American composer, pianist, and documentary director. He has composed scores for films, including Green Book, King Richard, The Color Purple, The Wild Robot and television series, including Bridgerton, Mrs. America, Dear White People, and When They See Us. Bowers is the recipient of the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of The Snowy Day. He has garnered multiple nominations at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, and Critics' Choice Awards. Bowers co-directed, with Ben Proudfoot, the short documentaries A Concerto Is a Conversation (2021) and The Last Repair Shop (2023), winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film. Bowers has recorded, performed and collaborated with José James, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, and Kanye West throughout his career. He has also collaborated with filmmakers Blitz Bazawule, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Malcolm D. Lee, Chris Sanders, and Justin Simien. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kris Bowers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Coonskin is a 1975 American adult animated satirical crime film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The film references the Uncle Remus folk tales and satirizes the blaxploitation film genre as well as Disney's racially controversial film Song of the South, also adapted from the Uncle Remus folk tales. The film's narrative concerns three anthropomorphic Uncle Remus characters, Br'er Rabbit (referred to as Brother Rabbit), Br'er Fox (referred to as Preacher Fox), and Br'er Bear (referred to as Brother Bear). They rise to the top of the organized crime racket in Harlem, encountering corrupt law enforcement, con artists, and the Mafia, in a satire of both racism within the Hollywood film system, and America itself. Originally produced under the titles Harlem Nights and Coonskin No More... at Paramount Pictures, Coonskin encountered controversy before its original theatrical release when the Congress of Racial Equality accused the film of being racist. When the film was released, Bryanston gave it limited distribution and it initially received mixed reviews. Later re-released under the titles Bustin' Out and Street Fight, Coonskin has since been re-appraised, recontextualizing the film as the condemnation of racism that the director intended, rather than a product of a racist imagination, as its detractors had claimed.
