![]() One of the first black American women to produce a feature-length film, she is considered to have “changed the face and content of the black womanist film.” Collins’s work is significant in that it conveys images of people of color, particularly women, in ways that even now are rarely seen in popular culture. ![]() When she died in 1988, she was just 46 years old. Collins' most well-known film LOSING GROUND was one of the first films directed by an African American woman specifically intended for popular consumption in the US. There, she took a course on making an a daptation of literature into film, which led her to the world of cinema. After graduating from Skidmore College and while teaching high school French in Newton, MA, she received the Whitney fellowship that allowed her to attend Sorbonne in Paris where she studied French literature. As a student at Lincoln High School, she was featured on the Jersey Journal several times for her activism and volunteer work around the country and around the world. Growing up in Jersey City, Kathleen Conwell Collins excelled throughout her life. ![]()
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