Up Next in Adventures in Moviegoing with Justin Simien

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  Losing Ground

  Losing Ground

  Directed by Kathleen Collins • 1982 • United States
  Starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones

  One of the first feature films directed by an African American woman, Kathleen Collins’s LOSING GROUND tells the story of a marriage between two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives...

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  Justin Simien on DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST

  Justin Simien on DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST

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  Daughters of the Dust

  Daughters of the Dust

  Directed by Julie Dash • 1991 • United States
  Starring Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbara O. Jones

  Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. In 1...