Film

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

2008 · 1h 23m · Documentary

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

Self (archive footage)

Kim Brockington

Zora Neale Hurston

S. Epatha Merkerson

Narrator (voice)

• Sam PollardDirector
• Kristy AndersenWriter

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (on Amazon)

Release date

August 16, 2008

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

Documentary