Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (2017)

1h 58m
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October 14, 2017
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Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (2017)

1h 58m
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October 14, 2017
Release Date

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On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway, she did not shy away from richly drawn characters and unprecedented subject matter. The play attracted record crowds and earned the coveted top prize from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. While the play is seen as a groundbreaking work of art, the timely story of Hansberry’s life is far less known.

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October 14, 2017

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1h 58m

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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. Hansberry is best known as the playwright of A Raisin in the Sun, a story that partially mirrored experiences of her family in confronting racial segregation. It premiered in 1959, won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play and was the first play by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway.

The film's world premiere was at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017 and its national U.S. broadcast premiere was on January 19, 2018, in the American Masters series on PBS.

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart presents various aspects of A Raisin in the Sun, including the challenge of securing investment and a venue for its initial production, the casting process, artistic debates and finally its public reception. The film features interviews with the play's original cast members, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett Jr.,

and Glynn Turman, director Lloyd Richards, producer Phil Rose, supporter Harry Belafonte as well as writer Amiri Baraka. The documentary also includes excerpts from the 1961 Hollywood movie version.

Beyond A Raisin in the Sun, the film examines details of Hansberry's life as a left wing activist. Like her writing, the documentary draws attention to some of the critical issues of the mid-Twentieth Century and beyond (racial justice, colonialism, feminism, class divisions, sexuality) and addresses the role of artists and intellectuals. The film reveals Hansberry as a feminist and acknowledges her lesbian identity.

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