Post-film discussion featuring actor Art Evans and veteran filmmaker Kokayi Ampah.
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5/14 showing is at The Main.
Roger E. Mosley is brilliant as blues singer Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter in Gordon Parks’ criminally underrated Leadbelly. This tough-as-nails biopic celebrates Leadbelly as it condemns America’s treatment of Black artists. “[O]ne of the best biographies of a musician I've ever seen.” –Roger Ebert
Director Biography
When speaking of Gordon Parks, one could easily write an entire biography on his work as a pioneering Black photographer working with the New Deal government; or on his fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including The Learning Tree; or on his music, including the scores for his own movies; or on his editorial work or his oil paintings.
Photo Courtesy The Gordon Parks Foundation