Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.

Cast

Fieldwork Footage

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

(Herself)

Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy

(Self (archival))

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

(Self (archive footage))

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

(Self (archive footage))
Crew

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

(Director)

The Gilded Six Bits

(Writer)

Their Eyes Were Watching God

(Novel)

Fieldwork Footage

(Director)

Ethnographic Films

(Director)