'(In)Visible Portraits' is now available on demand.
. The film—which was nearly three years in the making—features Black female scholars and authors sharing stories of struggle and celebration throughout American history. Egbuonu describes it as a “love letter to Black women, and a reeducation to everyone else.” Here, she shares how the film came to be.about two and a half years ago, but the idea came to me long before. Around six years ago—way before my film career began—I taught yoga.
As a Black woman, I was creating something that I wanted to see, that I felt wasn’t available. There’s so much I wasn’t taught in school because a lot of what is taught is revisionist history. It’s the cleaned-up version. Education is a form of conditioning, so for me I wanted to do a deep investigation of truths and create something that highlighted that.When I think about every movement that has happened in our country, it all comes back to Black women and Black mothers.
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