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Jessie Maple

Jessie Maple
Born
Jessie Maple

(1937-02-14)14 February 1937
Died30 May 2023(2023-05-30) (aged 86)
Occupation(s)Film director, Cinematographer
Years active1971–1992

Jessie Maple (February 14, 1937 – May 30, 2023)[a] was an American cinematographer and film director most noted as a pioneer for the civil rights of African Americans and women in the film industry.[3] Her 1981 film Will was among the first feature-length dramatic films created by an African American woman.[4]

  1. ^ Bissada, Mason (May 31, 2023). "Jessie Maple, Trailblazing Black Director and Cinematographer, Dies at 76". TheWrap. Retrieved June 3, 2023.
  2. ^ Franklin, McKinley (May 31, 2023). "Jessie Maple Dead: Trailblazing Director-Cinematographer Was 76". Variety. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
  3. ^ BFC/A (April 12, 2012). "Into The Archive: Exploring the Jessie Maple Collection". Black Film Center/Archive. Indiana University. Archived from the original on February 2, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
  4. ^ Bobo, Jacqueline (2017). "Black Women Filmmakers; a brief history" from The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, UK; New York: Routledge. pp. chapter 23. ISBN 9781138924956. Jessie Maple and Kathleen Collins ... were among the first black women to create long-form narrative dramatic feature films: Maple directed Will (1981) and Collins directed Losing Ground (1982).


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