Their Eyes Were Watching God Screening & Discussion

Movie Screening & Discussion With Film's Development Executive, Valerie Scoon.

February 6, 2016
1 pm - 3 pm
Location
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Sponsored by
Office of Pluralism and Leadership (OPAL)
Audience
Public
More information
Afro-American Society

Free, non-ticketed film: https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/filmspecialtheireyes

Programmed as part of Black History Month. Discussion follows with the film’s development executive Valerie Scoon.

The free-spirited Janie (Halle Berry) has few options or opportunities as a young black woman living in Jim Crow era Florida. Married off to a much older man, Janie is terribly constrained by his jealousy and his expectations of her, but fate deals her a winning hand when her husband dies and leaves her well off. Numerous suitors (Terrence Howard, Michael Ealy) knock on her door, but she makes an unexpected decision and changes her life forever. Based on the acclaimed 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston, which was raised from obscurity by Alice Walker 1975, Their Eyes offers a powerful critique of gender roles and a celebration of female sexuality through one woman’s incredible journey of self-discovery. D: Darnell Martin, US, 2005, 113m

 

More about the film’s development executive Valerie Scoon:

Valerie Scoon is a producer and creative executive with extensive industry experience who most recently served as the Director of Development for Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films where she worked for 7 years. She has worked as a story analyst at Creative Artist Agency, a creative executive for feature films at Warner Brothers, and as the Associate Director of News and Public Affairs at the Public Broadcasting Service.

Ms. Scoon is a graduate of Harvard University where she studied American history and literature. As President and CEO of True Visions Productions she currently develops and produces films and documentaries for theatrical release.

Location
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Sponsored by
Office of Pluralism and Leadership (OPAL)
Audience
Public
More information
Afro-American Society