Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, Apr 06, 2014 | Boston LGBT Film Festival 2014

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2014

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Director

Pratibha Parmar

Year

2013

Run Time

84

min

Country

USA

Language

PROGRAM Time

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The compelling story of an extraordinary woman’s journey from her birth in a paper thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the twentieth Century.Walker made history as the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple.

This film is presented in with English subtitles.

This feature documentary is a unique story of an extraordinary woman's journey from her birth in a paper-thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the 20th Century. Making history as the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple, Alice Walker’s inspiring journey is also a story of a country and a people at the fault line of historical changes.

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