Writing
Zora Neale Hurston
1891 · Notasulga, Alabama, USA
9 films
Bio
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.
Filmography
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Novel
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)
Ethnographic Films
Director
Fieldwork Footage
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
Self (archival)
The Gilded Six Bits
Writer
Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves
Director