Black Women Directors across the Diaspora - DocFilms at the University of Chicago
a film series highlighting the often unseen or undervalued short- and feature-length films of Black women directors. the series won a Best of Chicago award.
films in the series include: Monangambée (Sarah Maldoror, 1969), A Dessert for Constance (Sarah Maldoror, 1980), Léon G. Damas (Sarah Maldoror, 1994), The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman (Rosine Mbakam, 2018), Coffee Coloured Children (Ngozi Onwurah, 1988), Une fenêtre ouverte / An Open Window (Khady Sylla, 2005), Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins, 1982), Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself (Yvonne Welbon, 1995), Finding Christa (Camille Billops & James Hatch, 1991), Black Nations/Queer Nations? (Shari Frilot, 1995), An Untitled Portrait (Cheryl Dunye, 1993), She Don't Fade (Cheryl Dunye, 1991), The Potluck and the Passion (Cheryl Dunye, 1993), Towards Tenderness (Alice Diop, 2016), Bodily Functions (Jocelyn Taylor, 1995), Fieldwork Footage (Zora Neale Hurston, 1928), Commandment Keeper Church (Zora Neale Hurston, 1940), Killing Time (Fronza Woods, 1979), Fannie’s Film (Fronza Woods, 1981), Twice As Nice (Jessie Maple, 1989), Une fenêtre ouverte / An Open Window (Khady Sylla, 2005), I am Somebody (Madeline Anderson, 1970), Namibia: Independence Now! (Pearl Bowser, Christine Choy, 1985)