BFCA - Black Film Center & Archive
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The Black Film Center & Archive was established in 1981 to promote scholarship on the history, impact, theory, and aesthetics of Black film traditions.
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Happy birthday to pioneering filmmaker Jessie Maple Patton! Maple left a successful bacteriologist career in the 1970s to pursue filmmaking, becoming the first Black woman admitted to the New York Cinematographer’s Union after a prolonged discrimination lawsuit. #JessieMaple
