Films

Films

  • Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues (29 minutes, 1982)
    Produced & Directed with Peter Webster
  • Ethnic Notions (56 minutes, 1987)
  • Tongues Untied (55 minutes, 1989)
  • Affirmations (10 minutes, 1990)
  • Anthem (8 minutes, 1991)
  • Color Adjustment (87 minutes, 1991)
  • Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret) (38 minutes, 1992)
  • Black Is…Black Ain’t (86 minutes, 1995)

Selected Awards

  • California College of Arts and Crafts, Honorary Doctorate George Foster Peabody Award
  • 1988  Berlin Film Festival, Best Documentary
  • 1989 AMFAR Award for Courage American Film Institute, Maya Daren Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 1992 Sundance Film Festival Organization of American Historians, Erik Barnouw Award
  • 1992 International Documentary Association, Outstanding Achievement Award
  • 1992 National Black Programming Consortium, Oscar Micheaux Award
  • 1992 Hetrix Martin, Annual Emery Award
  • San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Frameline Award
  • 1992 People of Color Against AIDS Network Award ,Los Angeles Film Critics Association
  • American Film and Video Festival Black Filmmaker’s Hall of Fame, 1989