Movies: Shauneille Perry

  • 1978
    Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement

    Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement (1978)

    Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement

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    This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining its close ties with the civil rights movement. Included are interviews with veterans of the theatrical world such as James Earl Jones and Ed...

    Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
  • 2001
    The Old Settler

    The Old Settler (2001)

    The Old Settler

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    The Old Settler is the story of two middle-aged sisters, Elizabeth and Quilly, who share an apartment in Harlem in 1943. The sisters quarrel amiably, but they share a wounded history that becomes revealed as the tale unfolds. An earnest but unworldl...

    The Old Settler
  • 2017
    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (2017)

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

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    On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway, she did not shy away from richly drawn characters...

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
  • 1971
    Desperate Characters

    Desperate Characters (1971)

    Desperate Characters

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    Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by...

    Desperate Characters