Mary Perry Smith Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Archives collection, Series 5. Sidney Poitier Fellowship Competition, 1985-1993, bulk 1992-1993

A Guide to Her Holdings at the Indiana University Black Film Center & Archive

Finding aid prepared by Seth Mitter

Creator: Smith, Mary Perry, 1926-2015
Creator: Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc.
Title: Mary Perry Smith Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Archives collection, Series 5. Sidney Poitier Fellowship Competition
Collection No.: COL 5
Dates: 1985-1993, bulk 1992-1993
Quantity:

Quantity: 2 Boxes

Quantity:

Quantity: 52 Videocassettes

Quantity:

Quantity: 2 Audiocassettes

Abstract: This series contains papers, application packets, and audiovisual materials related to the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame's 1993 Sidney Poitier Fellowship competition. Applications to the program include written film proposals, scripts, sample works on videocassette, and other materials submitted by film and video makers competing for fellowship awards.
Language: Materials are in English
Repository: Black Film Center & Archive
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library, Room 044
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7000
Business Number: 812-855-6041
bfca@indiana.edu
URL: https://bfca.sitehost.iu.edu

Administrative History

The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc. (BFHFI) was founded in Oakland, California in 1974. The BFHFI began as a collaboration among Roy Thomas from the Afro-American Studies Department at UC-Berkeley, Mary Perry Smith, who was the co-chairperson of the Cultural and Ethnic Affairs Guild and at the Oakland Museum, and Sonny Buxton of the San Francisco Bay Area station KGO-TV.

The BFHFI identified itself as an organization "dedicated to influencing Black images portrayed in film and television through education, the nurturing of current independent filmmakers and the preservation of contributions by Black artists" (BFHFI 20th Anniversary Celebration Program). Throughout its existence the BFHFI presented award ceremonies honoring contemporary and historic figures in black filmmaking. Notable programs established by the BFHFI include the Oscar Micheaux Awards Ceremony, the International Black Film, Video & Screenplay Competition, the Black Filmworks International Film Festival, and the Sidney Poitier Fellowship. Additionally, educational programs, various symposia, and lecture series on black film were conducted throughout the life of the organization.

The BFHFI initially operated in partnership with the Oakland Museum, later incorporating itself as an independent, non-profit organization in 1978. Attempts to establish a dedicated museum and permanent home for the BFHFI were ultimately unsuccessful, although the BFHFI did begin acquisition of collections for this proposed museum.

The final Oscar Micheaux Awards ceremony was held in 1993, the 20th anniversary of the founding of the event. The BFHFI continued to present the Black Filmworks International Film Festival and Black Independent Film, Video & Screenplay Competition through 2003.

For a more detailed administrative history, a biography for Mary Perry Smith, and a listing of other series, please see collection overview ( http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/findingaids/bfca/VAD4347 ).

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of application materials submitted for consideration for the Sidney Poitier Fellowship (SPF) competition. The Sidney Poitier Fellowship for Emerging Black Filmmakers was announced by the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc. (BFHFI) in 1992 as a program to award up to ten fellowships to black film/video artists in the process of beginning or completing projects. The SPF program sought to "discover and provide support to talented persons who are pursuing careers as video and film makers" and to further the BFHFI's mission to provide resources to "those who are creating new and dynamic media images from our cultural perspective" (BFHFI planning document). The BFHFI announced the first Poitier Fellowship winners, who were selected from a pool of 102 applicants, at its 20th and final Oscar Micheaux Awards Ceremony in October 1993. The Awards Ceremony souvenir program includes a listing of the Poitier Fellowship awardees. Although the BFHFI intended to present ten awards bi-annually, the Sidney Poitier Fellowship program did not continue after its initial year.

SPF applicants were required to submit budgets, treatments, scripts, or project proposals, as well as a sample work on videocassette. The applications reflect a broad spectrum of independent film and video making from the early 1990s. Proposals include feature films, film school student projects, documentaries, community television, animation, experimental short films, and new media productions submitted by applicants ranging from first-time filmmakers to experienced mid-career veterans.

Videocassettes included with applications have been arranged in a separate series. Except when unavailable, each application has a corresponding sample work on videocassette found in the Videocassettes Series

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in the follow series with Series 1 containing twelve subseries:

  1. Collection overview
  2. Series 1. Publicity Materials
  3. Series 2. Oscar Micheaux Awards Ceremony and Gala
  4. Series 3. Film Lecture Series and Symposiums
  5. Series 4. Black Filmworks and Independent Film, Video & Screenplay Competition
  6. Series 5. Sidney Poitier Fellowship Competition
  7. -- Subseries 5.1. Applications Packets
  8. -- Subseries 5.2. Videocassette Submissions
  9. -- Subseries 5.3. Sidney Poitier Fellowship Administrative Documents
  10. Series 6. Miscellaneous BFHFI events files
  11. Series 7. BFHFI event recordings
  12. Series 8. Board and committee documents
  13. Series 9. General correspondence
  14. Series 10. HRMS, volunteer, and staff documents
  15. Series 11. General financial, fundraising, and legal documents
  16. Series 12. Memorabilia and artifacts
  17. Series 13. Third party publications
  18. Series 14. Research files
  19. Series 15. Mary P. Smith's files
  20. Series 16. Miscellaneous
  21. Series 17. Phil Moore Collection (Inventoried as if separate collection due to size)
  22. Series 18. Photographs (undergoing processing)
  23. Series 19. Born-digital materials (undergoing processing)

Restrictions

Access Restrictions:

This series is open for research. The bulk of the video recordings in this series will be digitized as part of Indiana University's Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI) between summer 2015 and winter 2018 and access will be extremely limited until that time. If you wish to preview an item in this series, please contact the BFCA staff well in advance of your visit.

Usage Restrictions:

Materials may be used in-house at the BFCA; duplication permitted only with permission of the Archivist.

Related Material

For some works-in-progress, another version of the production was submitted to the BFHFI for its regular Independent Film, Video, & Screenplay Competition or other BFHFI events. These alternate versions have been listed within the relevant series. When possible, the existence of an alternate version to an SPF entry has been noted, however this cross-listing is not comprehensive and researchers interested in studying multiple version of a specific work are advised to perform additional keyword searches within "Series 4. Black Filmworks and Independent Film, Video & Screenplay Competition."

Indexed Terms

General

In 2022, the Black Film Center/Archive (BFC/A) transitioned to its current name, the Black Film Center & Archive (BFCA). This finding aid was created under the organizational name Black Film Center/Archive. Upon this organizational name change, all previous references to the BFC/A were updated in this finding aid to match the current name, Black Film Center & Archive.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[item], Mary Perry Smith Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Archives Collection, Special Collection COL 5, Black Film Center & Archive, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Acquisition Information

The material in this series is part of a collection donated by Mary Perry Smith to the Indiana University Black Film Center & Archive in January 2014.

Processing Information

Processed by Seth Mitter.

Completed in 2015 .

Collection Inventory

Series:

1. Publicity materials

Series:

2. Oscar Micheaux Awards Ceremony and Gala

Series:

3. Film Lecture Series and Symposiums

Series:

4. Black Filmworks and Independent Film, Video & Screenplay Competition

Series:

5. Sidney Poitier Fellowship Competition

Subseries:

5.1. Application Packets , 1993

Content: SPF applicants were required to submit project proposals as well as project budgets detailing funding sought from the BFHFI. Many applications include complete scripts, while others provide treatments or storyboards. Other supplementary material commonly found in application packets include press clippings, résumés, and letters of recommendation. Sample works on videocassette included with submissions are identified in the supplemental content to the applications; however, these videocassettes are arranged and described separately in the series Videocassette Submissions.

The items listed under "Originally Submitted Supplemental Content" are those indicated by the applicant as having originally been submitted to the BFHFI. In some cases materials described in this section were returned to the applicant by the BFHFI and are not held by BFC/A. This has been indicated where possible.

Except when unavailable, evaluation forms completed by the five judges, including comments and responses to proposals and sample works, are filed with the application packets.

Arrangement of the series follows the entry numbering system the BFHFI assigned to each application packet.

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Sheldon Sampson application packet , 1993

collector No(s): 1

Physical Description: 1 application packet (6 pages) + script (84 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Fathers & Angels (Fifth Draft)
  2. Video title(s): Choices
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Trish Geran application packet , 1993 August 21

collector No(s): 2

Physical Description: 1 application packet (31 pages) + program and portfolio

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): The Other Side of the Coin
  2. Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino birthday celebration souvenir program
  3. Trish Geran publicity photograph
  4. Publicity materials for video titled: Wake Up Everybody
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Zeinabu irene Davis application packet , 1993 August 31

collector No(s): 3

Physical Description: 1 application packet (15 pages) + 1 script (20 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Compensation (Final draft)
  2. Video title(s): Compensation ; A Powerful Thang

General: SPF Awardee.

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Easton O. Nelson Jr. application packet , 1993 August 23

collector No(s): 4

Physical Description: 1 application packet (12 pages) + poetry booklet

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Coming Home Again [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
  2. Poem booklet containing "The Black Raven" by Gordon Nelson
  3. 1 audiocassette submitted with application. Shelf No. COL 5 AC 18

General: Audiocassette labeled: The Black Raven, sound track for film by Nelson Brothers Productions.

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Francee Covington application packet , 1993 September 3

collector No(s): 5

Physical Description: 1 application packet (20 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Nipped in the Bud/Potboiler [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Sally Joan Baker application packet , 1993 September 9

collector No(s): 6

Physical Description: 1 application packet (11 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): 8th Anniversary Program [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
  2. "Wee Poets" pamphlet
  3. Correspondence with BFHFI
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George Stubbs application packet , 1993 September 2

collector No(s): 7

Physical Description: 1 application packet (4 pages) + 1 script (16 pages) + storyboard (40 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Peace and Quiet (6th draft)
  2. Video title(s): Peace and Quiet [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
  3. Storyboard
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Iverson White application packet , 1993 September 1

collector No(s): 8

Physical Description: 1 application packet (approximately 40 pages) + 1 script (24 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: The Johnson Girls
  2. Video title(s): Dark Exodus ; Magic Love
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Daniel Pierce Bergin application packet , 1993 September 7

collector No(s): 9

Physical Description: 1 application packet (10 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Race Memory ; Droppin' Knowledge ; Zero Street
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Sidra Score application packet , 1993 September 8

collector No(s): 10

Physical Description: 1 application packet (9 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Martin's Lament
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Olaniyi Areke application packet , 1993 September 3

collector No(s): 11

Physical Description: 1 application packet (8 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Spouse Abuse : A Global Perspective [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Castaudaryl Kellum application packet , 1993 September 10

collector No(s): 12

Physical Description: 1 application packet (21 pages) + brochure

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Dead End Street
  2. Brochure for EXODUS Atlanta, GA Cities in Schools Program
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Donna Mungen application packet , 1993 September 9

collector No(s): 13

Physical Description: 1 application packet (10 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Success Avenue : Watts, Los Angeles
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Willie Moore application packet , 1993 August 28

collector No(s): 14

Physical Description: 1 application packet (5 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Ghana Folktale Jamm [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Teresa Jo Styles application packet , 1993 September 3

collector No(s): 15

Physical Description: 1 application packet (8 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): The Real McCoy : A Tribute to Black Inventors [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Yvonne Welbon application packet , 1993 September 10

collector No(s): 16

Physical Description: 1 application packet (13 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself

General: SPF Awardee.

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Reginald Woolery application packet , 1993 September 10

collector No(s): 17

Physical Description: 1 application packet (22 pages) + 1 script (56 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Overextended Family
  2. Video title(s): Backwalk ; 38th Parallel

General: SPF Awardee.

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Keith Hunter application packet , 1993 September 10

collector No(s): 18

Physical Description: 1 application packet (6 pages) + 5 duplicate copies with variant illustrations

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Power Surge ; The Power ; Hawker M25
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Aki L. Spicer application packet , 1993 September 12

collector No(s): 19

Physical Description: 1 application packet (approximately 25 pages) + 1 script (approximately 150 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Random Abstracts : A Compendium of Films by Aki L. Spicer and Steven J. Foley
  2. Video title(s): Insomnia [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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VernAnthony Pringle application packet , 1993 September 10

collector No(s): 20

Physical Description: 1 application packet (10 pages) + 1 script (9 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: A Cup of Sugar
  2. Video title(s): Men, Myths, & Dogs
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Heather Foxworth application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 21

Physical Description: 1 application packet (13 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Trouble I've Seen
  2. Audiocassette with song "Times Are Trying" (2 minutes) submitted along with video (AV shelf no. COL 5 AC 20)
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Loren Reed application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 22

Physical Description: 1 application packet (9 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Reclaiming Young African-American Males
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Dwight Wilkins application packet , 1993 September 11

collector No(s): 24

Physical Description: 1 application packet (13 pages) + 1 script (56 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Prisoners of Passion
  2. Video title(s): Reflections
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Eric Ross application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 25

Physical Description: 1 application packet (8 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Rank & File
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Dwight L. Smith application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 26

Physical Description: 1 application packet (11 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Samson and Delilah [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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H. Len Keller application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 27

Physical Description: 1 application packet (5 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Sincerely, Zena (1st draft)
  2. Video title(s): IFE [ORIGINAL SUBMISSION NOT HELD BY BFC/A; DO HAVE COPY SUBMITTED TO 1994 COMPETITION: COL 5 VH 382]
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Paul Rigne Roach application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 28

Physical Description: 1 application packet (4 pages) + 1 duplicate application with annotations

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Sydney Byrd, Private Eye
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[incomplete application] , 1993

collector No(s): 29

Physical Description: 1 incomplete application packet (1 page) + 3 duplicate copies of same

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. 1 audiocassette, shelf no. COL 5 AC 19

General: Packet contains fragment of project proposal and judges' evaluation forms.

Audiocassette label: Theme "Condition" Ken Wms.

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George Tillman, Jr. application packet , 1993 September 12

collector No(s): 30

Physical Description: 1 application packet (1 page) + 1 script (101 pages) + business cards

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Scenes For the Soul (draft eight)
  2. Video title(s): Menagerie Reel
  3. Stickers and business cards for Menagerie Films production company
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Katherine Nero application packet , 1993 September 11

collector No(s): 31

Physical Description: 1 application packet (9 pages) + 1 script (29 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Wedding Bell Blues (aka "Happily Ever After") (revised final draft)
  2. Video title(s): Wedding Bell Blues ; The Choice ; Blues Alive ; Nine-ish
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Michele Barnwell application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 32

Physical Description: 1 application packet (2 pages) + 1 script (34 pages) + 1 revised script (35 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: One Red Rose ; One Red Rose (Revised November 8, 1991)
  2. Video title(s): One Red Rose (trailer)
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R. Montgomery application packet , 1993

collector No(s): 33

Physical Description: 1 self-addressed envelope

General: Folder contains applicant's self-addressed stamped envelope and judge's evaluation forms.

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Saundra Sharp application packet , 1993 September 9

collector No(s): 35

Physical Description: 1 application packet (8 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Why Didn't You Tell Me This Before? ; Picking Tribes [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]

General: SPF Awardee.

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Donald Wylie application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 37

Physical Description: 1 application packet (11 pages) + 1 script (14 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Tea Time
  2. Video title(s): Tea Time
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Frank Crosby application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 38

Physical Description: 1 application packet (15 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: The Hunger of Memory [excerpt]
  2. Video title(s): The Hunger of Memory

General: Excerpt of script is included in application packet.

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Candace Hunter application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 40

Physical Description: 1 application packet (9 pages) + 1 script (24 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Black Fax (the movie?!) (2nd draft)
  2. Video title(s): The Making of Tamika's World [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Ashley James application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 41

Physical Description: 1 application packet (27 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): We Love You Like A Rock [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]

General: SPF Awardee.

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Fikisha Cumbo application packet , 1993 September 11

collector No(s): 42

Physical Description: 1 application packet (20 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): An American Story
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Alonzo Crawford application packet , 1993 September

collector No(s): 43

Physical Description: 1 application packet (34 pages) + 1 script (142 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: American Blue
  2. Video title(s): Walk On White Nails [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]

General: SPF Awardee.

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Monica Breckenridge application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 44

Physical Description: 1 application packet (approximately 30 pages) + 1 script (11 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Roxi's Bluff
  2. Video title(s): Faking It [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Erick Knight application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 45

Physical Description: 1 application packet (17 pages) + 1 script (32 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Dread Night Folk
  2. Video title(s): Dread Night Folk [work-in-progress] ; Baobab [excerpt]

General: SPF Awardee.

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Celeste A. Crenshaw application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 46

Physical Description: 1 application packet (6 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Black Women On: The Light-Dark Thang ; [untitled sample of programs] [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]

General: Application indicates that two VHS tapes were submitted.

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Ann Marie J. Bryan application packet , 1993 September 12

collector No(s): 47

Physical Description: 1 application packet (11 pages) + 1 duplicate application with slight variant handwritten annotations (11 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Cutting The Edge Of A Free Bird
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David N. Roach application packet , 1993 September 15

collector No(s): 48

Physical Description: 1 application packet (6 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): The Griot: An African Storyteller
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Nicole Atkinson application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 49

Physical Description: 1 application packet (5 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Word of Mouth [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Lawrence "Tucky" McKey Jr. application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 50

Physical Description: 1 application packet (3 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): We Will Never Die (Test Stage) ; The Masterdisc Vs Hup Two 3

General: SPF Awardee.

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Steven K. Ball application packet , 1993 October 11

collector No(s): 51

Physical Description: 1 application packet (30 pages) + 1 script

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title(s): Night Time People
  2. Video title(s): Night Time People
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James E. Noblin application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 52

Physical Description: 1 application packet (8 pages) + 1 script (9 pages) + 1 storyboard (approximately 40 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: The Associate
  2. Video title(s): The Last Time I Saw Rikki
  3. Storyboard: The Associate
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Windell Williams application packet , 1993 September 9

collector No(s): 53

Physical Description: 1 application packet (6 pages) + 1 press kit (7 pages) + 3 photographs: black & white ; 8 x 10 in.

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Murder Magic
  2. Murder Magic promotional production stills
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Yuell V. Newsome application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 55

Physical Description: 1 application packet (12 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Euphaedra [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Reginald R. Sutton application packet , 1993 September 12

collector No(s): 56

Physical Description: 1 application packet (12 pages) + 1 script (13 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: I'm from the Old School!
  2. Video title(s): I'm from the Old School! [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Billy Jackson application packet , 1993 September 10

collector No(s): 57

Physical Description: 1 application packet (10 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Didn't We Ramble On [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Michael Lange application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 58

Physical Description: 1 application packet (25 pages) + 1 script (31 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Prophet Nat
  2. Video title(s): Othello [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
  3. Application packet includes Prophet Nat storyboard (8 pages)
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Garret C. Williams application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 59

Physical Description: 1 application packet (4 pages) + 1 script (26 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Spark (first draft)
  2. Video title(s): Helicopter [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Thomas Poole application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 60

Physical Description: 1 application packet (11 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Compilation of Not Channel Zero
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Delle Chatman application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 62

Physical Description: 1 application packet (6 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Madame Secretary
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Steven J. Foley application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 63

Physical Description: 1 application packet (21 pages) + 1 script (97 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Strange as Angels
  2. Video title(s): Insomnia [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]

General: Includes letter from BFHFI to Steven J. Foley, 1993 October 8.

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Sonya Lynn application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 64

Physical Description: 1 application packet (6 pages) + 1 script (30 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Sweet (final draft)
  2. Video title(s): Sweet [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Jerry-Tremaine Combes application packet , 1993 September 8

collector No(s): 65

Physical Description: 1 application packet (approximately 40 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Stop
  2. 3 page screenplay title: Word Is Bond bound with application materials
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Marie Smith Kellier application packet , 1993 September 10

collector No(s): 66

Physical Description: 1 application packet (15 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Rivermaiden's Dance
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Linda Gibson application packet , 1993 September 15

collector No(s): 67

Physical Description: 1 application packet (20 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Flag
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Evelyn C. White application packet , 1993 September 10

collector No(s): 68

Physical Description: 1 application packet (23 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Framing Lesbian Fashion
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Jonathan O. Gary application packet , 1993 September 12

collector No(s): 69

Physical Description: 1 application packet (4 pages) + script (9 pages) + clippings (2 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: True Blue Bart
  2. Video title(s): True Blue Bart
  3. Newspaper clippings pasted on construction paper housed in oversized folder

General: Three folders for applicant entry number 69: application packet, script, clippings.

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Mary Frances Spruce application packet , 1993 September 12

collector No(s): 70

Physical Description: 1 application packet (18 pages) + 1 script (33 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Step Two
  2. Video title(s): Turn It Out [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Laini Dakar application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 71

Physical Description: 1 application packet (10 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Beyond the Agenda
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Darryl Dane Bohanan applicaton packet , 1993 September 10

collector No(s): 72

Physical Description: 1 application packet (10 pages) + 1 script (15 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Taking It to the Stage
  2. Video title(s): Taking It to the Stage [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Ben McCrea application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 73

Physical Description: 1 application packet (approximately 40 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Retribution [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
  2. Application packet includes photocopied stills from production of "Retribution" (25 pages)

General: Original folder enclosing application materials has been retained. Production includes actor Wendell Pierce .

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Monique L. Shaifer application packet , 1993 September 15

collector No(s): 75

Physical Description: 1 application packet (6 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Oakland Is … Special: A Juneteenth Celebration ; Oakland Style
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Darryl E. Pugh application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 78

Physical Description: 1 application packet (approximately 50 pages) + script (29 pages) + press book (8 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: The Raven
  2. Video title(s): The Raven
  3. Bound document "Private Placement and Proposed Limited Partnership for The Raven Production Limited Partnership"
  4. "The Raven" pressbook
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Desmon Brown application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 79

Physical Description: 1 application packet (25 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Demo.
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Stanley Nelson application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 81

Physical Description: 1 application packet (11 pages) + 1 letter to BFHFI (1 page)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Two Dollars and a Dream ; Metahdone-Curse or Cure

General: SPF awardee. Letter dated 1993 September 20 accompanying submission of work-in-progress videocassette. Application indicates that two videotapes were submitted; only one held by BFHFI.

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Ada Marie Babino application packet , 1993 August 26

collector No(s): 82

Physical Description: 1 application packet (6 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Middle Passage -N- Roots [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Mario Bobino application packet , 1993 September 15

collector No(s): 84

Physical Description: 1 application packet (6 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Mario Bobino IDebonair Productions Bio
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E. Lance McCarthy application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 85

Physical Description: 1 application packet (11 pages) + supplementary materials (approximately 40 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Black Entrepreneur
  2. Supplementary materials include various writings, clippings and photocopy of applicant's poetry collection "Spirit of Utopia"
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M. David Lee III application packet , 1993 September 8

collector No(s): 87

Physical Description: 1 application packet (17 pages) + 1 script (100 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Black & White: Make Grey
  2. Video title(s): Black and White: Make Grey [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Oshalla Nun-Ra application packet , 1993 September 15

collector No(s): 88

Physical Description: 1 application packet (18 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Marin City Then and Now (An African-American Community in Transition)
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Gloria J. Fluker application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 89

Physical Description: 1 application packet (17 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): GOTCHA! From the Mouth of Syphilis and Crack Cocaine [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Kelvin Zachary Phillips application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 90

Physical Description: 1 application packet (27 pages) + 1 script (30 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Love: In Brief (final draft)
  2. Video title(s): Love: In Brief
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Margaret Jackson application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 91

Physical Description: 1 application packet (11 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Keepers of the Culture [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Christopher Grant application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 92

Physical Description: 1 application packet (14 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Mama Am Cookin'
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Christine L. Minor application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 93

Physical Description: 1 application packet (24 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Let the Truth Be Told…

General: SPF Awardee.

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Frank Wiley application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 94

Physical Description: 1 application packet (8 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. [no video submitted]

General: Proposal for an "interactive multimedia CD ROM project about the history of Black film makers, films, and the America they lived in." No indication in application that video or other sample work was submitted.

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Neke Bivins application packet , 1993 September 14

collector No(s): 96

Physical Description: 1 application packet (8 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): Drum Beats of Hope [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Dennis Burroughs application packet , 1993 September 10

collector No(s): 97

Physical Description: 1 application packet (17 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Video title(s): The Commission on African American Males
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T. Carlos Williams application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 98

Physical Description: 1 application packet (14 pages) + 1 script (20 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Superdread
  2. Video title(s): DA Bridge
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Rudy Hypolite application packet , 1993 September 10

collector No(s): 100

Physical Description: 1 application packet (8 pages) + 1 script (approximately 25 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Allegations
  2. Video title(s): Allegations (off line edited excerpt)
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Edgar P. Davis application packet , 1993 September 13

collector No(s): 101

Physical Description: 1 application packet (9 pages) + 1 script (67 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: A Jury of Her Peers (draft three)
  2. Video title(s): A Jury of Her Peers [NOT HELD BY BFC/A]
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Ruth Forman application packet , 1993 September 15

collector No(s): 102

Physical Description: 1 application packet (10 pages) + 1 script (14 pages) + duplicate application packet (13 pages)

Originally Submitted Supplemental Content:

  1. Script title: Poetry Should Ride the Bus
  2. Video title(s): Poetry Should Ride the Bus

General: Duplicate application packet includes pages not contained in original.

Subseries:

5.2. Videocassette Submissions , 1985-1993

Content: Sidney Poitier Fellowship (SPF) applicants were asked to submit a 15-minute sample work on a VHS videocassette. Video submissions vary in content from portions of the work-in-progress proposed in the SPF application to previously completed works to compilation reels. Applicants were offered the choice to have videocassettes returned after judging, and for many applications in this series no video submission is held.

Videocassettes listed in this series were received with SPF application materials. For some works-in-progress, a later version of the production was later submitted to the BFHFI. A separate inventory of videocassettes submitted to other BFHFI competitions, which includes these later versions, may be found in "Series 4. Black Filmworks & the annual BFHFI Independent Film, Video & Screenplay Competition, 1987-2003 (bulk 1990-2003)": http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/findingaids/bfca/VAD4348 . For some items, the existance of a version submitted to the regular competition has been noted has been noted, however this cross-listing is not comprehensive.

Arrangement of this series follows the entry numbering system BFHFI assigned to each application packet.

Choices , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 1

collector No(s): 1

Creator: Sampson, Sheldon

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (28 minutes) : sound, color ; 16 mm

The Other Side of the Coin , 1992 October

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 2

collector No(s): 2

collector No(s): O9

Creator: Geran, Trish

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Compensation; A Powerful Thang , 1993, 1991

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 3

collector No(s): 3

collector No(s): C30

Creator: Davis, Zeinabu irene

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (10 minutes) : black & white ; 16 mm + 1 film reel (57 minutes) : color ; 16 mm.

Dark Exodus; Magic Love , 1985, 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 4

collector No(s): 8

Creator: White, Iverson

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: Dark Exodus, 28 minutes, 16 mm ; Magic Love, 97 minutes, 16 mm

General: Submission includes excerpts from these two works.

Race Memory ; Droppin' Knowledge ; Zero Street , 1990 December-1992 November

shelf No(s): COL 5 TQS 12

collector No(s): 9

collector No(s): R34

Creator: Bergin, Daniel Pierce

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic)

Format of original version: Race Memory: 16 mm and 3/4 in. video ; Droppin' Knowledge: 3/4 in. video ; Zero Street: 16 mm and beta video

General: Videocassette label: Race Memory (10 minutes).

Martin's Lament Preview , 1993 June

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 5

collector No(s): 10

Creator: Score, Sidra

Creator: Parallax Communications, Inc.

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (Betacam) (15 minutes)

Dead End Street , 1990 July

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 6

collector No(s): 12

Creator: Kellum, Castaudaryl

Creator: Kellum Enterprises

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (10 minutes) ; 16 mm

Success Avenue : Watts, Los Angeles , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 7

collector No(s): 13

collector No(s): S47

Creator: Mungen, Donna

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (17 minutes, 26 sec.) ; 35 mm

General: Videocassette is labeled 1995 competition entry.

Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 TQL 40

collector No(s): 16

collector No(s): R35

Creator: Welbon, Yvonne

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic)

Format of original version: Super8 film ; Hi-8 video (15 minutes, 45 sec.)

Backwalk ; 38th Parallel , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 TQS 3

collector No(s): 17

collector No(s): B23

Creator: Woolery, Reginald

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic)

Format of original version: Backwalk: 5 minutes, beta-sp video ; 38th Parallel: 10 minutes, Hi-8 video, Super8 mm, 3/4 in. video

General: Videocassette label: Backwalk, Overextended Family (sample).

Power Surge ; The Power ; Hawker M25 , 1991

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 8

collector No(s): 18

Creator: Hunter, Keith

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: Power Surge: videocassette, (U-matic) ; The Power: videocassette (VHS) ; Hawker M25: videocassette (VHS)

Men, Myths, & Dogs , 1993 May

shelf No(s): COL5 VH 9

collector No(s): 20

Creator: Pringle, VernAnthony

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (12 minutes) ; color ; 16 mm

General: Additional copy/version of Men, Myths, & Dogs also submitted to the regular 1994 competition (entry 2, shelf no. COL5 TQL 28).

Trouble I've Seen , 1991

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 10

collector No(s): 21

collector No(s): T35

Creator: Foxworth, Heather

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel ; 16 mm

Reclaiming Young African-American Males , 1993 June

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 11

collector No(s): 22

Creator: Reed, Loren

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: Video (58 minutes, 40 sec.)

Reflections , 1990 November

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 12

collector No(s): 24

Creator: Wilkins, Dwight

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (12 minutes, 38 sec.) ; 16 mm

Rank & File , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 13

collector No(s): 25

Creator: Ross, Eric

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (14 minutes) ; 3/4 in.

Sydney Byrd, Private Eye , 1993 April 26

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 14

collector No(s): 28

Creator: Roach, Paul Rigne

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: [unknown]

[incomplete application] , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 AC 19

collector No(s): 29

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette

General: Audiocassette label: Theme "Condition" Ken Wms.

Menagerie Reel , 1993 February

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 15

collector No(s): 30

Creator: Tillman, George, Jr.

Creator: Menagerie Films

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (6 minutes) ; 16 mm

General: Titled Menagerie Films Demo Reel on videocassette.

Wedding Bell Blues ; The Choice ; Blues Alive ; Nine-ish , 1989 through 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 16

collector No(s): 31

collector No(s): W2

Creator: Nero, Katherine

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: Wedding Bell Blues [excerpt from work-in-progress]: 2 minutes, 16 mm ; The Choice: 6 minutes, 16 mm ; Blues Alive: 4 minutes, 16 mm ; Nine-ish: 3 minutes, 16 mm

General: Videocassette label: Wedding Bell Blues (27 minutes, 32 sec.).

One Red Rose , 1993 March

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 17

collector No(s): 32

collector No(s): O17

Creator: Barnwell, Michele

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (2 minutes, 40 sec.) ; 35mm

General: Videocassette label: One Red Rose (29 minutes, 55 sec.).

Tea Time , between 1988 and 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 18

collector No(s): 37

Creator: Wylie, Donald

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (30 minutes) ; 3/4 in.

The Hunger of Memory , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 19

collector No(s): 38

collector No(s): H16

Creator: Crosby, Frank D.

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (27 minutes, 30 sec.) ; 16 mm

General: Videocassette label: The Hunger of Memory (30 minutes, 45 sec.).

An American Story , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 20

collector No(s): 42

Creator: Cumbo, Fikisha

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: Hi8 video (15 minutes)

General: Note on videocassette: Mrs. Elnora Evans-Sampson-Brantley. Photographs of her family (raw footage).

Dread Night Folk; Baobab , 1989 June, 1993 February

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 21

collector No(s): 45

Creator: Knight, Eric

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: Dread Night Folk : 1 film reel (8 minutes, 30 sec.) : color and black and white, sound ; 16 mm Baobab: 1 film reel (9 minutes) : color and black and white, sound ; 16 mm

General: Additional copy/version of Dread Night Folk also submitted to the regular 1997 competition (entry 156, shelf no. VH 271).

Cutting the Edge of a Free Bird , 1993 September

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 22

collector No(s): 47

Creator: Bryan, Ann Marie J.

Creator: Deafvision filmworks, Inc.

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (15 minutes) ; 16 mm

General: Additional copy/version of Cutting the Edge of a Free Bird submitted to regular 1994 competition (entry 16, shelf no. COL 5 VH 219)..

Listen to the Hands of Our People , 1993 September

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 23

collector No(s): 47

Creator: Bryan, Ann Marie J.

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: [unknown]

The Griot: An African Storyteller , 1993 July

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 24

collector No(s): 48

Creator: Roach, David N.

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (VHS) (15 minutes) : 1/2 in.

We Will Never Die (Test Stage); The Masterdisc Vs Hup Two 3 , 1993 summer, 1992 May

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 25

collector No(s): 50

collector No(s): W7

Creator: McKey, Lawrence "Tucky" Jr.

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: We Will Never Die: 1 film reel (8 minutes) ; 16 mm. The Masterdisc Vs Hup Two 3: 1 film reel (5 minutes) ; 16 mm

General: Additional copy/version of The Masterdisc vs Hup Two 3 also submitted to the BFHFI (shelf no. COL 5 VH 464).

Night Time People (Sample) , 1993 January 20

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 74

collector No(s): 51

Creator: Ball, Steven K.

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: Original(s) presumed to be with applicant:1 videocassette (U-matic) (30 minutes) ; 3/4 in.

The Last Time I Saw Rikki , 1991-1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 26

collector No(s): 52

Creator: Noblin, James E.

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (6 minutes, 30 sec.) ; 16 mm

Murder Magic , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 27

collector No(s): 53

Creator: Williams, Windell

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: Film (90 minutes) ; 35 mm

Compilation of Not Channel Zero , 1991-1992

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 28

collector No(s): 60

Creator: Poole, Thomas

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: Video (15 minutes) ; 1/2 in.

General: Compilation includes: Uncle Clarence Goes to Hollywood ; Dear Brother ; Nation Erupts.

Madame Secretary , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 29

collector No(s): 62

Creator: Chatman, Delle

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: Video (28 minutes)

Stop , 1991 December

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 30

collector No(s): 65

Creator: Combes, Jerry-Tremaine

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (Super8) (7 minutes) ; 8 mm

General: Also includes: monologue from "A Soldier Story" (3 minutes).

Rivermaiden's Dance , 1987-1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 31

collector No(s): 66

Creator: Smith Kellier, Marie

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (20 minutes) : color, sound ; 16 mm

Flag , 1989

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 32

collector No(s): 67

collector No(s): F7

Creator: Gibson, Linda

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (25 minutes) ; 3/4 in.

Framing Lesbian Fashion , 1992

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 33

collector No(s): 68

Creator: Everett, Karen

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (Betacam) (58 minutes, 30 minutes) ; 1/2 in.

True Blue Bart , 1991 May

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 34

collector No(s): 69

collector No(s): T3

Creator: Gary, Jonathan O.

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (S-VHS) (15 minutes) ; 1/2 in.

Beyond the Agenda , 1993 February

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 35

collector No(s): 71

collector No(s): B9

Creator: Dakar, Laini

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (15 minutes) ; 16 mm

Oakland Is ... Special: A Juneteenth Celebration ; Oakland Style , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 TQL 36

collector No(s): 75

collector No(s): O23

Creator: Shaifer, Monique L.

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic)

General: Additional copy/version of Oakland Is... also submitted to BFHFI (shelf no. COL 5 TQL 36).

The Raven , 1990 September

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 36

collector No(s): 78

Creator: Pugh, Darryl E.

Creator: Mirror Image Productions

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (20 minutes) ; 16 mm

Demo. , between 1990 December and 1993 June

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 37

collector No(s): 79

Creator: Brown, Desmond

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: Video 3/4 in. ; film 16 mm ; film 8 mm

General: Video description "A compilation of video images an [sic] issues that have a distinct fashion that is generated through the level of intensity and the varied background of the viewer."

Two Dollars and a Dream; Methadone-Curse or Cure , 1990, 1993 September

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 38

collector No(s): 81

collector No(s): T44

Creator: Nelson, Stanley

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (56 minutes) 16 mm ; 1 film reel (60 minutes) 16 mm

General: Videocassette label: Two Dollars and a Dream (no titles 5/88).

Mario Bobino Idebonair Productions Bio , 1993 September

shelf No(s): COL 5 TQL 13

collector No(s): 84

collector No(s): D1

Creator: Bobino, Mario

Creator: Debonair Productions

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic)

Format of original version: [unknown format] (14 minutes, 28 sec.)

Black Entrepreneur , 1993 September 1

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 39

collector No(s): 85

Creator: McCarthy, E. Lance

Creator: Urban Rennaissance Productions

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: [unknown format] (15 minutes)

General: Videocassette case labeled: uni-vite inc. ; uni-vite opportunity.

Marin City Then and Now (An African-American Community in Transition) , 1992 April

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 40

collector No(s): 88

collector No(s): M51

Creator: Nun-Ra, Oshalla

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (30 minutes) ; 3/4 in.

General: Additional copy/version of Marin City Then and Now also submitted to BFHFI (shelf no. COL 5 TQL 29).

Love: In Brief , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 41

collector No(s): 90

Creator: Phillips, Kelvin Zachary

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (25 minutes) ; 16 mm

Mama Am Cookin' , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 42

collector No(s): 92

Creator: Grant, Christopher

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 film reel (13 minutes) : black & white ; 16 mm

Let the Truth Be Told… , 1993 June

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 43

collector No(s): 93

collector No(s): L11

Creator: Minor, Christine L.

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (12 minutes) ; 3/4 in.

General: Videocassette label: Let the Truth Be Told…Voices of Women in the Black Panther Party (a 12-minute sample tape).

The Commission on African American Males , 1993 March

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 44

collector No(s): 97

Creator: Burroughs, Dennis

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (20 minutes) ; 3/4 in.

Da' Bridge , 1991

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 45

collector No(s): 98

Creator: Williams, Carlos T.

Creator: Animafrica Productions

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (4 minutes) ; 3/4 in.

General: Additional copy/version of Da' Bridge also submitted to the regular 1992 competition (entry 104, shelf no. COL 5 TQS 6).

Allegations , 1993

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 46

collector No(s): 100

Creator: Hypolite, Rudy

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (15 minutes) ; 3/4 in.

Poetry Should Ride the Bus , 1992 August

shelf No(s): COL 5 VH 47

collector No(s): 102

collector No(s): P5

Creator: Forman, Ruth

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)

Format of original version: 1 videocassette (S-VHS) (15 minutes) ; 1/2 in.

Subseries:

5.3. Sidney Poitier Fellowship Administrative Documents , 1992-1993
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SPF Awardee Letters

General: Yvonne Welbon award letter is missing.

SPF Rejection Letters
Judging Forms for Missing Applications
Judges' Documents
SPF internal planning documents

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6. Miscellaneous BFHFI events files

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7. BFHFI event recordings

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8. Board and committee documents

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9. General correspondence

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10. HRMS, volunteer, and staff documents

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11. General financial, fundraising, and legal documents

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12. Memorabilia and artifacts

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13. Third party publications

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14. Research files

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15. Mary P. Smith's files

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16. Miscellaneous

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17. Phil Moore Collection (Inventoried as if separate collection due to size)

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18. Photographs (undergoing processing)

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19. Born-digital materials (undergoing processing)