Chisholm 72 - A Screening and Conversation With Shola Lynch
Join us for a screening of Chisholm ’72 — "Unbought and Unbossed," directed by Spelman College's Diana King Endowed Professor Shola Lynch, M.S., M.A. The documentary captures Shirley Chisholm’s groundbreaking 1972 presidential campaign. The documentary which features an interview with Chisholm, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has won many accolades, including a Peabody Award.
The film screening will be held Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 6 p.m. in the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby Ed.D. Auditorium at Spelman College. Following the film screening will be a discussion with Lynch and film and television director Professor Emerita Ayoka Chenzira, Ph.D., will follow.
Lynch is an award-winning American filmmaker best known for the feature documentary FREE ANGELA & All Political Prisoners and the Peabody Award-winning documentary CHISHOLM ’72: Unbought & Unbossed. Her independent film body of work and her other collaborative projects feed her passion to bring history alive with captivating stories of people, places and events. Since 2013 she has also served as the Curator of the Moving Image & Recorded Sound division of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In 2016, Lynch became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Chenzira is an award-winning filmmaker and a recognized pioneer in Black independent cinema. She is part of a generation of African American filmmakers who helped create a genre of filmmaking now identified as Black independent cinema. Her distinctive body of work spans fiction, documentary, animation, performance, experimental narratives, interactive cinema and television. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and is one of the first African American women to write, produce and direct a 35mm feature film, "Alma's Rainbow" (developed at Sundance Institute), and noted in Billboard Magazine's top forty home video sales list. She is considered the first African American woman animator with her animated satire, "Hair Piece: a film for nappyheaded people" and later "Zajota and the Boogie Spirit." Hair Piece was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2018.
