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Joy Elaine Davenport
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Biography
Joy Elaine Davenport is a director, editor, and composer currently based in Chicago, Illinois. She has worked as a freelancer on every aspect of film production for over a decade. Her mission as a documentary filmmaker is to elevate and empower underrepresented voices.
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Lonnie Holley, a "self-taught African American artist" and dimensional traveler, attempts to sneak off the slave ship America.
I Snuck Off the Slave Ship
2019
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The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders. Throughout the 1960s, Fannie Lou Hamer established a legacy of civil rights and human rights activism that remains relevant to this day – especially among Black youth.
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
2022