The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks

272 Wall Street,Kingston NY 12401

30 May, 2023

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The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks, 101 min, USA, 2022 Directed by Yoruba Richen Recently nominated for a Peabody Award, The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks, is a feature documentary that delves deep into civil rights icon Rosa Parks' historic work and her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Through interviews with those who knew her, powerful archival footage and her own words, the film tells the story of Parks' extensive organizing, radical politics and lifelong dedication to activism. Yoruba Richen Will present her films, How it feels to be Free and The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks on Tuesday May 30 at Old Dutch Church as part of the Pinkster 2023 Warrior Woman Film Series Yoruba Richen is an Emmy- nominated documentary filmmaker whose work has been featured on multiple outlets, including Netflix, MSNBC, FX/Hulu, HBO and PBS. Her most recent film The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for a Peabody and a Critic’s Choice Award and won a Gracie Award. It is currently streaming on Peacock. Other recent films include How It Feels to Be Free (American Masters), The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show (Peacock) and Green Book: Guide to Freedom (Smithsonian Channel). She directed an episode of the award-winning series Black and Missing for HBO and High on the Hog for Netflix. Yoruba is the co-director of the Peabody nominated American Reckoning which aired on PBS's FRONTLINE and The Killing of Breonna Taylor which won an NAACP Image Award and is streaming on HULU. Her previous films, The New Black and Promised Land won multiple festival awards before airing on Independent Lens and P.O.V. Yoruba is a past Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow and she won the Creative Promise Award at Tribeca All Access. She was a Sundance Producers Fellow and Women’s fellow and is a recipient of the Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker’s Award. Yoruba is the founding director of the Documentary Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.