ACE Presents: Stamped From the Beginning

Director: Roger Ross Williams

2023 / 91min / DCP

Ibram X. Kendi’s National Book Award-winning chronicle of the long and pervasive intellectual history of anti-Black racism in the United States gets a stirring and inventive hybrid documentary treatment from Williams—working with editors John S. Fisher and Francesca Sharper—carefully crafting an adaptation that incorporates captivating interviews with a host of Black female scholars, archival footage, film excerpts, and innovative animations, the last to tell the inspirational, oppositional stories of the lives of poet Phillis Wheatley, author Harriet Jacobs, and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells.

Q&A with editors John S. Fisher and Francesca Sharper, moderated by David Velasco