Marlon Riggs

Artist, poet, writer, producer, director.... he is a contraversial filmaker creating tv documentaries, where he tries to brings up new thoughts and issues that can be debated and discussed as to what should be seen by the public in order to broadern their minds.

He was born in 1957 and died at the very early age of 37 in 1994, of Aids. He created films that spoke out for his beliefs, as a gay black man in the 90's he created films that would open up the perseptions of what america should be seen as, "America was white, america was male and america was heterosexual, " this quote was what he was fighting against showing the diversity of America. He's final film 'Black is Black Ain't' he worked on from his hospital bed and did not manage to finish it and so his friends finished the film for him and yet it shows everything that he stands for.

He was a fantastic poet and most of his films use some form of voice over poetry to heighten the message that they are showing.

being known as the creator of Queer cinema in the Avant-Garde was just a small part of what he was good at, graduating from harvard with a History degree and then continuing to gain his masters in Journalism from berkley, he was a very intelligent adn creative young filmaker.