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Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart is a 2017 American documentary film by Tracy Heather Strain (Producer, Director, Writer), Randall MacLowry (Producer, Editor) and Chiz Schultz (Executive Producer) on the life and work of writer Lorraine Hansberry.
Oct 14, 2017 · Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: Directed by Tracy Heather Strain. With Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett Jr., Lorraine Hansberry. A documentary feature about Lorraine Hansberry, whose play Raisin in the Sun was the first by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.
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- Documentary, Biography
- Tracy Heather Strain
- 2017-10-14
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. [1] She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway . Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun , highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation .
The documentary Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart is the first in-depth presentation of Hansberry’s complex life, using her personal papers and archives, including home movies and...
In the new KCET documentary Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes - Feeling Heart by Award-winning director Tracy Heather Strain, this very talented playwright's life is dissected from her humble beginnings on the South Side of Chicago to the Harlem Renaissance to hiding her authentic self.
2017 DOC NYC - New York Documentary Festival. Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart tells the dramatic story of Lorraine Hansberry, the young, gifted and black woman who chose words to fight injustice—on stage and off.
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Standing next to Tracy Heather Strain, director of the remarkable 2018 film Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, the first feature-length documentary of the life and work of Lorraine Hansberry, author of the groundbreaking 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, I found myself surprised—and a bit unnerved—by the moment’s many contradictions. Strain’s documentary had just been screened to a full and ...
