Zora Neale Hurston

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.

Cast

Fieldwork Footage

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Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy

Self (archival)

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

Herself

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

Self (archive footage)

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

Director

The Gilded Six Bits

Writer

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Novel

Fieldwork Footage

Director, Director of Photography

Ethnographic Films

Director

Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves

Director, Camera Operator