News & Events
February 2009
DI to Host Screening by UF Alum
The Documentary Institute will host a screening of Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun Feb. 9 at 5 p.m. in Weimer Hall, Room 3032. UF Alum Kristy Andersen, who will attend the screening, wrote and produced the feature-length documentary, which PBS aired last year as part of its American Masters series.
Kristy Andersen began researching Zora Neale Hurston’s life in 1991 after receiving a grant from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. She broadened her research to eight other states after receiving grants from Humanities Councils from New York to Alabama. Andersen’s work with the Library of Congress led to the discovery of a cache of film footage that Hurston shot in South Carolina, hidden away in boxes since 1940.
In addition to Hurston’s original anthropological recordings, Jump at the Sun includes rare archival film footage of the rural South, and interviews with Alice Walker, Dorothy West, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Maya Angelou, and individuals who knew Hurston personally.
The screening is being hosted in partnership with the Bellamy Road Foundation.
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