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Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Plot: 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
Release Date: Saturday, August 16 2008
16 years ago
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Portrait of Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston would have been no older than 69 in Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun as 'Self (archive footage)'.
Birthday: Wed, Jan 07 1891 –
Thu, Jan 28 1960
Portrait of Kim BrockingtonKim BrockingtonKim Brockington was >> in Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun as 'Zora Neale Hurston'.
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Portrait of S. Epatha MerkersonS. Epatha MerkersonS. Epatha Merkerson was 55 in Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun as 'Narrator (voice)'.
Birthday: Fri, Nov 28 1952

Crew

Portrait of Sam PollardSam PollardSam Pollard was 63 in Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun as 'Director'
Birthday: Fri, Apr 20 1945
Portrait of Kristy AndersenKristy AndersenKristy Andersen was >> in Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun as 'Writer'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday