Speakers
- Terri Francis
- Black Film Center/Archive, Director
Terri Francis directs the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her interview with transformative lesbian filmmaker Cheryl Dunye appears in the 2018 issue of Film Quarterly. She guest edited a close-up on Afrosurrealism in film and video for the 2013 fall issue of Black Camera: An International Film Journal. In 2011, Francis published her path breaking study of Jamaican nontheatrical films in “Sounding the Nation: Martin Rennalls and the Jamaica Film Unit, 1951-1961” in Film History. Her book The Cinematic Prism of Josephine Baker, a study of how the entertainer used humor to master her precarity, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press. Francis’s public commentary on matters of race and representation can be found on NPR and The Guardian.