Documentary: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE
Director Tracy Heather Strain illuminates the life of groundbreaking author andHurston made a number of trips to the American South and the Caribbean in the late-1920s and early-1930s to document the lives of rural Black people. She made the extraordinarily prescient decision to take a film camera and shot about 15 rolls of African-American life. She was ahead of her time, says Strain, because of her anthropological methods and techniques.
