This article was written by Lopa Bhattacharya.
“It is indeed a wonderful revelation in the history of world cinema that immensely talented women filmmakers of Africa and the African Diaspora are making it really big in innovative filmmaking. Not only are they challenging old cinematic prescriptions, they are also using their superior art of cinema to create and establish new visions of their people and the world.
The journey of black women filmmakers began as early as 1922 when Tressie Saunders, a black woman director made the exemplary film A Woman’s Error. It was the first attempt of its kind in that era to decolonize the gaze and to ground the film in the black female subjectivity.
However, today even after a long history of evocative work, black women directors have had a long, slow path to the director’s chair, where only a handful of black woman filmmakers have been able to break through the racial barriers in Hollywood.”
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