Zora Neale Hurston

Writing

Born January 7, 1891 · Notasulga, Alabama, USA

4 films as director · Active 1928–1940

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her fou…

Known for

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

2023

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

1940

Fieldwork Footage

1928

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

2008

Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy

2005

Directed(4)

1940Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940★ 6.5

1929Ethnographic Films★ 7.5

1928Fieldwork Footage★ 5.7

1928Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves

Acting(5)

2023Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a SpaceSelf (archive footage)

Film

2008Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the SunSelf (archive footage)

Film

2005Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every JoySelf (archival)

Film