Finding Christa
Essential Documentaries
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55m
Directed by Camille Billops and James Hatch | 55 mins | 1991
An affecting yet unsentimental portrait of motherhood, Camille Billops’s collaboration with husband James Hatch captures her reunion with the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption in 1961, combining candid interviews and archival footage with musical interludes, unexpected comedy, and elements of scripted reality to interrogate both the social biases she faced as a Black woman and her own complicated emotions. At once deeply personal and formally audacious, it was awarded the Grand Jury Prize documentary at Sundance in 1992.
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