Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Documentary · 2008

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.

Starring

Sam Pollard, Kristy Andersen, Zora Neale Hurston, Kim Brockington, S. Epatha Merkerson

Director

Sam Pollard