Movie Description
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
(2008)Overview
Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original.
Featured Crew
- Director : Sam Pollard
- Writer : Kristy Andersen
- Cast : Zora Neale Hurston,Kim Brockington,S. Epatha Merkerson
Cast
Self (archive footage)
Zora Neale Hurston
Narrator (voice)
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Facts
Original TitleZora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Status Released
Release Information
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2008-08-16
Original Language
Runtime 01h 23m
Production CompaniesKristy Andersen
Genres
- Documentary
