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Additional authors

1. Strain, Tracy Heather
2. MacLowry, Randall
3. Ervin, Chad
4. Byron, Don
5. Weaver, Jonathan
6. De Besche, Austin
7. Bramley, Nikki
8. Butler, Rick
9. Walker, Keith
10. California Newsreel (Firm) film distributor.
11. American Masters Pictures, presenter.
12. Chiz Schultz, Inc.
13. Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project, LLC., presenter.
14. Black Public Media (Firm), production company.
15. Independent Television Service, production company.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color and black and white; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. "The first-ever feature documentary about Lorraine Hansberry, the visionary playwright who authored the groundbreaking A Raisin in the Sun. An overnight sensation, the play transformed the American theater and has long been considered a classic, yet the remarkable story of the playwright faded from view. With this documentary, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain resurrects the Lorraine Hansberry we have forgotten--a passionate artist, committed activist and sought-after public intellectual who waged an outspoken and defiant battle against injustice in 20th-century America. The film reveals Hansberry's prescient works tackling race, human rights, women's equality and sexuality that anticipated social and political movements on the horizon"--

Uniform title

1. Lorraine Hansberry (Documentary television program)

Alternative title

1. Sighted eyes, feeling heart

Subject

1. Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
2. Dramatists, American > 20th century > Biography
3. African American dramatists > 20th century > Biography
4. American drama > 20th century
5. Women dramatists > 20th century
6. African American theater > 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
2. Documentary television programs.

Call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1892

Credits (note)

1. Screenwriter, Tracy Heather Strain ; producers,Tracy Heather Stain, Randall MacLowry ; editors, Randall MacLowry, Chad Ervin ; composer, Don Byron ; cinematographers, Jonathan Weaver, Austin de Besche, Nikki Bramley, Rick Butler, Keith Walker ; California Newsreel presents [with] American Masters Pictures ; Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project, LLC presents in association with the Film Posse, Chiz Schultz Inc. and American Masters Pictures ; a co-production with ITVS, Black Public Media.

Funding (note)

1. Major funding provided by National Endowment for the Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Ford Foundation/JustFilms, National Endowment for the Arts, The Film Posse, American Masters Pictures, LEF Foundation, Peter G. Peterson & Joan Ganz Cooney Fund, Illinois Humanities.

System details (note)

1. DVD, NTSC; stereo or Dolby 5.1 surround sound.

Language (note)

1. English SDH; subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing; English descriptive audio.

Title

1. Lorraine Hansberry : sighted eyes, feeling heart / directed by Tracy Heather Strain.

Publisher

1. [San Francisco] : California Newsreel, 2017.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videodisc

System details

1. DVD, NTSC; stereo or Dolby 5.1 surround sound.

Credits

1. Screenwriter, Tracy Heather Strain ; producers,Tracy Heather Stain, Randall MacLowry ; editors, Randall MacLowry, Chad Ervin ; composer, Don Byron ; cinematographers, Jonathan Weaver, Austin de Besche, Nikki Bramley, Rick Butler, Keith Walker ; California Newsreel presents [with] American Masters Pictures ; Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project, LLC presents in association with the Film Posse, Chiz Schultz Inc. and American Masters Pictures ; a co-production with ITVS, Black Public Media.

Funding

1. Major funding provided by National Endowment for the Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Ford Foundation/JustFilms, National Endowment for the Arts, The Film Posse, American Masters Pictures, LEF Foundation, Peter G. Peterson & Joan Ganz Cooney Fund, Illinois Humanities.

Performer

1. Narrator, LaTanya Richardson Jackson ; Lorraine Hansberry voiceover, Anika Noni Rose ; Alexandria King (as Lorraine Hansberry).
2. Interviewees: Michael Anderson, Ann Bannon, Amiri Baraka, Harry Belafonte, Timuel Black, William Branch, Dorothy Burnham, Steven Carter, Charles Davis, Ruby Dee, Burt D'Lugoff, Harry Elam, Louis Gossett, Jr., Mamie Hansberry, Clarence Jones, Lynn Nottage, Imani Perry, Shauneille Perry, Sidney Poiter, Lloyd Richards, Philip Rose, Marie Rupert, Joan Sandler, Judith Smith, Glynn Turman, Douglas Turner Ward, Mary Helen Washington, Margaret Wilkerson, Edie Windsor.

Language

1. English SDH; subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing; English descriptive audio.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound
2. Credits from Internet Movie Database

Added author

1. Strain, Tracy Heather, film director.
2. MacLowry, Randall, film producer.
3. Ervin, Chad, film editor.
4. Byron, Don, composer.
5. Weaver, Jonathan, cinematographer.
6. De Besche, Austin, cinematographer.
7. Bramley, Nikki, cinematographer.
8. Butler, Rick, cinematographer.
9. Walker, Keith, cinematographer.
10. California Newsreel (Firm) film distributor.
11. American Masters Pictures, presenter.
12. Chiz Schultz, Inc.
13. Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project, LLC., presenter.
14. Black Public Media (Firm), production company.
15. Independent Television Service, production company.

Added title

1. Lorraine Hansberry (Documentary television program)

Research call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1892