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Black women have made significant contributions to cinema since its early days, and these 10 filmmakers deserve more recognition for paving the way to the future with their unique perspectives.
The three great black films of the 1990s are, in this order: To Sleep with Anger from Charles Burnett, One False Move from Carl Franklin, and Eve’s Bayou from Kasi Lemmons. The first and third are family dramas, the second is neo-noir. All have almost nothing to do with an issue that, for good reason, is important to most black directors: race relations. In the case of Eve’s Bayou, which is set in the 1960s,.