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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]
Free State of Jones is a 2016 American historical war film inspired by the life of Southern Unionist Newton Knight, who led a successful armed revolt against the Confederacy in Jones County, Mississippi, throughout the American Civil War.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Fresno journalist co-produced the series. Clune isn’t the only member of Fresno State’s faculty to work on the documentary. Dr. Hanayo Oya was a co-producer on the series, developing content ...