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Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Gini Reticker and produced by Abigail Disney. The film premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Documentary. [1] The film had its theatrical release in New York City on November 7, 2008. It had cumulative gross worldwide of $90,066. [2]
Numerous newspaper and magazine articles, documentary films, and children's books on Gullah culture, have been produced, in addition to popular novels set in the Gullah region. In 1991 Julie Dash wrote and directed Daughters of the Dust , the first feature film about the Gullah, set at the turn of the 20th century on St. Helena Island.
Film saga from 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia. [12] [13] 2000 The Patriot: A film by Roland Emmerich. A Gullah village in South Carolina is featured in a scene. [14] 2008 Bin Yah: There's No Place Like Home: A documentary film by Justin Nathanson about the Gullah community of East Cooper in South Carolina ...
Gullah Geechee were the focus again of the second film she made in the Lowcountry of South Carolina Trailblazing director returns to Beaufort. Gullah Geechee star again in latest film.
Now 160 years old, Penn Center is sharing its important history with the help of noted authors and historians and even a TV star
It is the first feature film directed by an African-American woman to receive a theatrical release in the United States. [2] Set in 1902, the film centers on three generations of Gullah (or Geechee) women from the Peazant family on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, as they prepare to migrate from the rural South to the North.
Tigerland is a 2000 American war drama film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Colin Farrell. It takes place in a training camp for soldiers to be sent to the Vietnam War. Tigerland was the name of a U.S. Army training camp during the mid-1960s to early 1970s, located at Fort Polk, Louisiana as part of the U.S. Army Advanced Infantry ...
Joseph A. Opala, OR (born August 4, 1950) is an American historian noted for establishing the "Gullah Connection," the historical links between the indigenous people of the West African nation of Sierra Leone and the Gullah people of the Low Country region of South Carolina and Georgia in the United States.