Film
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
2023 · 1h 52m · Documentary · History
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Overview
Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.
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Cast
Zora Neale Hurston
Self (archive footage)
Vanessa Williams
Narrator (voice)
Bahni Turpin
Zora Neale Hurston (voice)
Lee D. Baker
Self
Crew
- Tracy Heather StrainWriter · Director · Producer
- Randall MacLowryProducer
- Cameo GeorgeExecutive Producer
- Nikki BramleyDirector of Photography
- Mark DugasEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- January 17, 2023
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
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