Alile Sharon Larkin

Alile Sharon Larkin
Born
Sharon Larkin

(1953-05-06) May 6, 1953 (age 71)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma materUSC BA,[1][2] UCLA, MFA[1][2]
Occupation(s)Film director, producer, screenwriter
Years active1979–present

Alile Sharon Larkin (born May 6, 1953) is an American film producer, writer and director. She is associated with the L.A. Rebellion (also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers),[1][2][3] which is said to have "collectively imagined and created a Black cinema against the conventions of Hollywood and Blaxploitation film."[4] Larkin is considered to be part of the second wave (or generation) of these revolutionary black filmmakers, along with Julie Dash and Billy Woodberry.[5][6][7] Larkin also co-founded the Black Filmmakers Collective.[2]

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  3. ^ Prime, Samuel B. "A Different Image (1982); Creating a Different Image: Portrait of Alile Sharon Larkin (1989); Dreadlocks and the Three Bears (1991); Your Children Come Back to You (1979)". Los Angeles: UCLA Film and Television Archives. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
  4. ^ Davis, Zeinabu Irene (2014). "Keeping the black in media production: one L.A. Rebellion filmmaker's notes". Cinema Journal. 53 (4): 157–161. doi:10.1353/cj.2014.0054.
  5. ^ Masilela, Ntongela (1993). "The los angeles school of black filmmakers". Black American Cinema.
  6. ^ Massood, P. J. (1999). "An Aesthetic Appropriate to Conditions: Killer of Sheep, (Neo)Realism, and the Documentary Impulse". Wide Angle. 21 (4): 20–41. doi:10.1353/wan.2004.0004. S2CID 167498816.
  7. ^ Ogunleye, Foluke (2007). "Transcending the Dust: African American Filmmakers Preserving the Glimpse of the Eternal". College Literature. 34: 156–173. doi:10.1353/lit.2007.0008.