Spotlight on Jessie Maple
Criterion Originals
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16m
Learn why curator and author Terri Simone Francis calls Jessie Maple a woman who “contained multitudes” in the following introduction. Not only was Maple a tireless advocate for Black independent film—running a cinema out of her Harlem basement—and the first African American woman to become a union cameraperson, she directed a trailblazing pair of human-scale films that found touching human drama and philosophical profundity on the streets and basketball courts of New York City.
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