Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

8.083 min
Documentary

Overview

Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original.

Movie Info

Release Date: 8/16/2008

Runtime: 83 min

Director: Sam Pollard

Top Cast

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

Self (archive footage)

Kim Brockington

Kim Brockington

Zora Neale Hurston

S. Epatha Merkerson

S. Epatha Merkerson

Narrator (voice)

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