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Losing Ground is a semiautobiographical [1] 1982 American drama film written and directed by Kathleen Collins, and starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn and Duane Jones. [2] It is the first feature-length drama directed by an African-American woman [3] since the 1920s and won First Prize at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival in Portugal.
The film features the same cast as the stage performance and was filmed using high-definition video at The Gate, a bar in Park Slope. [1] Losing Ground premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival [2] on March 11, 2005, to generally favorable reviews. [3] The film was distributed to a small number of theaters in New York City. [4]
Losing Ground may refer to: Losing Ground, a critique of welfare programs by Charles Murray published in 1984; Losing Ground, an American film by Kathleen Collins; Losing Ground, an American film by Bryan Wizemann; Losing Ground, a Burmese short documentary film "Losing Ground" (song), a 1997 song by Groove Terminator
One of the first films directed by a Black woman, Kathleen Collins' 'Losing Ground' was an obscurity for almost 40 years. That's finally changing. 'Losing Ground' made film history.
Collins's 1982 Losing Ground was restored and reissued in 2015. [13] The film, which had only been seen at film festivals in 1982/83, had its first theatrical release in 2015 at Film Society of Lincoln Center, [14] opening the series "Tell it like it is: Black Independents in New York, 1968–1986". [13]
While some saw the casting as significant, director George A. Romero stated Jones' race was not a factor in his casting; Romero cast him simply because "Jones was the best actor we met to play Ben." [4] Jones continued working in film after Night of the Living Dead in Ganja & Hess (1973), Losing Ground (1982), and Beat Street (1984), among ...
Higher Ground is a 2011 American drama film directed by Vera Farmiga in her directorial debut. [2] The film is an adaptation of the 2002 memoir This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost by Carolyn S. Briggs, who co-wrote the screenplay. The film follows Corinne Walker (Farmiga) and her vacillating relationship with Christianity.
Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy.Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on a desert island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home.