Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 16, 2008

Original language

English

Production

Kristy Andersen

Cast

Zora Neale Hurston,S. Epatha Merkerson,Kim Brockington

Director

Sam Pollard

Writer

Kristy Andersen

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1216664