Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart

Year: 2017
Description: First biographical film about Lorraine Hansberry, the author of the landmark play A Raisin in the Sun who was also a public intellectual and civil rights activist.
Director: Strain, Tracy Heather
Writer: Strain, Tracy Heather
Producer: MacLowry, Randall; Strain, Tracy Heather
Cinematographer: Bramley, Nikki; Butler, Rick; de Besche, Austin; Walker, Keith
Editor: Ervin, Chad; MacLowry, Randall
Production Team: California Newsreel, Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project, Film Posse, Chiz Schultz, American Masters Pictures, Independent Television Service, and Black Public Media
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Media Format: 1 DVD (118 min.) or 1 streaming video (118 min.)
Type: Color with black and white sequences
Production Notes: Broadcast as "Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes, Feeling Heart" on the PBS television series American Masters on Jan. 19, 2018.
Won a 2018 Peabody Award and a 2018 American Historical Association Film Award.
Updated: 01-22-2025

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