Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

About Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (2023) is a documentary history film directed by Tracy Heather Strain. Zora Neale Hurston takes the lead as Self (archive footage), Vanessa Williams as Narrator (voice), Bahni Turpin as Zora Neale Hurston (voice), and Lee D. Baker as Self.

Released in January 2023, it runs 112 minutes. Written by Tracy Heather Strain.

Members will find female writer and writer in it. It streams on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel in the United States.

To Walk Invisible, One Day, and Can You Ever Forgive Me? make useful companions to Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space.