Arts and HumanitiesSocial Sciences

E. Reich

2024.12.12FILM CRITICISM

DOI: 10.3998/fc.6864

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Black women documentary filmmakers discuss their work and efforts to document a largely unrecorded history of Black women in film.

Abstract

Juanita Anderson, Tracy Heather Strain, and Zeinabu irene Davis speak together about the history of Black women film and media makers, their own work, and their efforts—and community’s—to build a world for Black women in film. They share names and stories of women who influenced them, as well as hopes that more collections will document what has remained a largely unrecorded history. The conversation also considers the painful contradictions of erasure inherent in finalizing records and archives even while optimistically producing one.

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REICH, E. Black women documentary filmmakers roundtable: Zeinabu irene davis, juanita anderson, and tracy h. strain. FILM CRITICISM, 2024.