Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original.
Kristy Andersen
Writer
Sam Pollard
Director
Zora Neale Hurston
Self (archive footage)
Kim Brockington
Zora Neale Hurston
S. Epatha Merkerson
Narrator (voice)
Directed by John Ford70%
My Mom Jayne80%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
McQueen74%
A Plastic Ocean75%
The Class of ‘9271%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Love, Marilyn66%
Sherman's March67%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Audrey71%
Casting By68%
180° South72%
Sidney70%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Being James Bond77%
Public Speaking70%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
