Documentary of the Week

The Life of Lorraine Hansberry


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Lorraine Hansberry, the playwright best known for “A Raisin in the Sun,” gets a long overdue biography in the documentary “Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart.” Filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain spent 14 years on the film, and delivers a complex portrait of Hansberry as a writer, radical and lesbian ahead of her time.

— Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen

For more information, click here to visit the official film web site.

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