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2017

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Uniform Title:	Sighted eyes, feeling heart (Television program)
Title:	Sighted eyes, feeling heart / 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 ; written and directed by Tracey Heather Strain ; produced by Tracy Heather Strain and Randall MacLowry ; executive producer, Chiz Schultz.
Publisher, Date:	[San Francisco] : California Newsreel, 2017
Description:	1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. 4 3/4 in. stamping digital optical NTSC video file DVD video
Summary:	"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"-- Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project WWW site.
Subjects:	Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965. Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography. African American dramatists -- 20th century -- Biography. American drama -- 20th century. Women dramatists -- 20th century. African American theater -- 20th century.
Genre:	Documentary television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
Other Author:	Strain, Tracy Heather, film director, film producer, screenwriter. MacLowry, Randall, film producer, editor of moving image work. Richardson, LaTanya, 1949- narrator. Rose, Anika Noni, 1972- voice actor. King, Alexandria Danielle, actor. Ervin, Chad, editor of moving image work. Byron, Don, composer (expression) Weaver, Jonathan (Cinematographer), director of photography. De Besche, Austin, director of photography. Bramley, Nikki, director of photography. Butler, Rick, director of photography. Walker, Keith (Cinematographer), director of photography. California Newsreel (Firm), presenter, film distributor. American Masters Pictures, production company, sponsoring body. Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project, LLC, production company. Film Posse (Firm), production company, sponsoring body. Chiz Schultz, Inc., production company. Independent Television Service, production company. Black Public Media, production company. National Endowment for the Humanities, sponsoring body. Corporation for Public Broadcasting, sponsoring body. Ford Foundation, sponsoring body. JustFilms (Firm), sponsoring body. National Endowment for the Arts, sponsoring body. LEF Foundation, sponsoring body. Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney Fund, sponsoring body. Illinois Humanities Council, sponsoring body.
Other Title:	Title from container and disc label: Lorraine Hansberry : sighted eyes, feeling heart Contained in (work): American masters (Television program)
Notes:	Originally produced as a episode of the PBS television series American masters in 2017; per Internet movie database, first broadcast January 19, 2018 as episode 1 of season 32. Editors, Randall MacLowry, Chad Ervin ; music composer, Don Byron ; cinematographers, Jonathan Weaver, Austin de Besche, Nikki Bramley, Rick Butler, Keith Walker. Narrator, LaTanya Richardson Jackson ; Lorraine Hansberry voiceover, Anika Noni Rose ; Alexandria King (as Lorraine Hansberry). 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. 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. DVD, NTSC; stereo or Dolby 5.1 surround sound. In English, with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH); optional English descriptive audio; closed captioned.
Other Number:	1030021852
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	778892
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	DVD BIO Hansberr

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