
Writer
Zora Neale Hurston
135 years · Notasulga, Alabama, USA · 8 films
Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.
Best known for


Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
1940 · Herself, Director
On Criterion Channel


Fieldwork Footage
1928 · Actor, Director
On Criterion Channel


Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
2023 · Self (archive footage)
On Kanopy


Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
2008 · Self (archive footage)
On Kanopy

The Gilded Six Bits
2001 · Writer

Ethnographic Films
1929 · Director
Filmography 8


Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
2023 · Self (archive footage)
On Kanopy


Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
2008 · Self (archive footage)
On Kanopy

Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
2005 · Self (archival)

The Gilded Six Bits
2001 · Writer


Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
1940 · Herself, Director
On Criterion Channel

Ethnographic Films
1929 · Director


Fieldwork Footage
1928 · Actor, Director
On Criterion Channel

Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves
1928 · Director