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DAUGHTERS OF THE DIASPORA
Independent Women Filmmakers

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Many of these films require a bit of research to locate. In future we hope to bemore helpful in providing info as
to where to get works by these filmmakers.

I will always remember:

Kathleen Collins
Kathleen Collins
March 18, 1942 - September 18, 1988
Kathleen Conway Collins Prettyman was born on March 18, 1942, in Jersey City, New Jersey. She attended Skidmore College (B.A. in Philosophy and Religion) and later did graduate work in France where she studied French literature and cinema (M.A., Ph.D., Middlebury Graduate School of French) I met Cathy the summer of 1971, she was editing a film for the Chamba brothers (St. Claire Bourne, Stan Lathan, Tony Battan, Charles Hobson, and Kent Garrett) She was editing on a Steinbeck flatbed everyone else I knew was working on upright Movieola's. She was a hi-tech sister from the jump.

 
Jackie ShearerJackie Shearer

(1946-1993)
The last time I saw Jackie was at thePBS Retreat for minority women artist in 1990. She told me that she had begun taking swimming lessons to conquer her fear to the water, and just before she came to the retreat she had drived into the water, head first, into the deep end and swam. Jackie was a dedicated filmmaker, an accomplished director, producer and scriptwriter and a woman of elegance. The work Jackie chose reflected the deliberateness of her inner life. She showed her commitment to social and political action most notably through her work in film and video media, applying a high level of innovation and decisiveness in practcing her craft. Experimenting with each successive project, Jakie created new and different approaches to challenge not only conventional forms and perceptions but also stagnant ways of thinking.
 

Sara Gomez, CubaSara Gomez

(1943-1974)
Sara Gomez, born in Cuba, was a journalist who began studying film at Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos (ICAIC), the Cuban Institute of Cinematic Art and Industry, in the 1960's. She worked as an Assistant Director to Jorge Fraga, Tomas Gutierrez Alea and Agnes Varda Sara Gomez made a series of documentary shorts before directing De Cierta Manera (1975)aka One Way or Another. While her film was in post-producton she died of an acute asthma attack, her film was completed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea.

 


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