America
Directed by Garrett Bradley · Starring Charles Adams, Donna Crump, Victoria Hardway, Edward Spots · 2019
Through black-and-white vignettes rooted in New Orleans, Garrett Bradley reimagines a lost chapter of early African-American filmmaking.
A gorgeous, poetic reclaiming of Black film history from the director of Time.
Garrett Bradley’s “America” reveals and reinterpets a lost history in African-American cinema. Inspired by the earliest surviving feature film with an all-black cast and through a series of vignettes rooted in New Orlean
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