PROJECT OVERVIEW
ZORA HEAD focuses on Valerie Boyd’s lifelong dedication to sharing Black women's stories, and presents insights into her writing process, sites of memory, archival objects, and personal history narratives as told by Boyd’s closest collaborators.

The film features her most lauded publications, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, and Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic.


FILMMAKERS
Directed by Clint Fluker & Adam Forrester
Produced by Rosalind Bentley, Shannon O’Daniel & Clint Fluker
Cinematography by Adam Forrester & Lindsey LeGrand

CAST
Rosalind Bentley
Valerie Boyd
Gabrielle Dudley
Veta Goler
Nicole Morris Johnson
Alice Walker

SCREENINGS/AWARDS
Bronze Lens Film Festival| Best Short Documentary Nominee
Out on Film Film Festival | Runner Up, Best Documentary Short
Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema Nominee | Georgia Film Critics Association Awards

FORMAT
COLOR / HD / 1.78
20 MIN / USA

DEDICATION
In addition to her many publications, Valeri Boyd had a distinguished career as the Arts Editor at the Atlanta Journal Constitution until leaving the newspaper in 2004.

Valerie founded a journal Black arts and culture called EightRock in 1990 and cofounded the first nationally distributed magazine focused on African American health, HealthQuest, in 1992.

She also founded and directed the University of Georgia’s MFA program in narrative nonfiction and served as a professor of journalism while there.

Valerie’s physical absence is deeply felt by us all, but her spirit and her work continues to inspire readers, writers, and dreamers around the world.