Written and scored by Maya Angelou, Georgia, Georgia is one of the earliest known feature films produced from a Black woman’s screenplay. The story follows pop singer Georgia Martin (Diana Sands) and her inner circle of companions on a tension-filled three-day tour in Sweden. Exhausted by the pressures and publicity, the tragic character sings of love and pain while pursued by a Black Vietnam vet and a white American photographer (Dirk Benedict). 1972, Sweden/U.S., 35mm, 91 min.
Part of a cinema residency Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich: Evading Capture. Filmmaker, artist, and series curator Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich will introduce the film.
35mm print courtesy Swedish Film Institute.
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Bio
Stig Björkman is a Swedish writer, film director, and film critic. He made his directing debut with the short film Letitia (1964), his feature film debut with Jag älskar, du älskar (1968), and in 1972 he made the American film Georgia, Georgia, which was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. After Björkman made a number of internationally distributed documentary films, Isabella Rossellini asked him to make a filmography about her mother, Ingrid Bergman, based on Bergman’s diaries and films from the family’s collection. The film Jag är Ingrid (2015) attracted attention at the Cannes Film Festival, where Bergman was a featured personality that year.
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Content note: contains mature content and some offensive language.
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