Yvonne Welbon Movies

Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.

The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the...

In this poignant story set in the 1850s, a young slave girl befriends a magical woman in the woods called Mother of the River. Through their...

The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the media play in representation of...

An Autobiography charts the influence of the filmmaker’s six-year experience as an African American woman in Taiwan after college graduation....

Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the...

Meet Mama Gloria. Chicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen, now in her 70s, blazed a trail for trans people like few others before her....

Told through the lens of Janaé and Bella, two fierce abolitionist leaders, Unapologetic is a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives, from...

The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.

An interview with the filmmaker Julie Dash about her film training, vision and struggle to bring Daughters of the Dust to the American movie screen....

The oldest known "out" African-American lesbian remembers ten colorful decades in this hour-long documentary, which won the Audience Award for Best...

Queenie Lawrence, a 73-year-young Black Lesbian and resident of the Marcy Projects, navigates applying for the Stonewall Houses, NYC's first LGBT...

An experimental dramatic documentary which explores loss and denial in an African American family through the filmmaker's story of her kidnapped twin...

A thirty-something Black lesbian reflects on falling for her best friend in junior high. Set in the 70s and 90s, this is a delightful tale of love...

Using a childhood experience of racial bigotry at school, this film looks at the ways in which racism is ingrained in American society, even in the...