One way or Another(1974)
ONE BOOK ONE NORTHWESTERN CINEMA SERIES
HIDDEN FIGURES WOMEN OF COLOR BEHIND THE CAMERA FALL 2019 & WINTER 2020
Drawing on the example of the 2019-2020 One Book One Northwestern selection, Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space, Block Cinema presented a yearlong series celebrating the history of women of color behind the camera. Featuring rarely-screened films and in-depth discussions with filmmakers and historians, these programs championed the scholars, educators, curators, and archivists who work to make hidden histories visible today. Co-presented by Block Cinema One Book One Northwestern, the Black Arts Initiative, SPS Graduate Programs Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, and Northwestern 150 Years of Women. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (1974/1977)
OCTOBER 23, 2019
In more ways than one, Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez (1942-1974) was a trailblazer—the first woman director at the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), she pioneered a hybrid documentary-narrative form with her only feature, De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another). The film uses a fictional love story between a man and woman from vastly different backgrounds to study the complexity of postrevolutionary Cuban society. Completed after Gómez’s sudden death at age 31, One Way or Another stands today as a major milestone in both Latin American and Black women’s cinema. 69
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