Actor

Zora Neale Hurston

1928–present1891–1960DocumentaryHistory

Cinematic Visionary

Also directed 4 films ↗Also wrote 2 screenplays ↗

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Filmography

2023Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a SpaceSelf (archive footage)5.0 2008Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the SunSelf (archive footage)8.0 2005Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every JoySelf (archival)1940Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940Herself6.5 1928Fieldwork Footage5.7

About

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.

As Director

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1940Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 1928Fieldwork Footage 1929Ethnographic Films 1928Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves

As Screenwriter

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2001The Gilded Six Bits 2005Their Eyes Were Watching God

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