‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ Filmmakers On A Towering Mind Who Changed America – Contenders Documentary
The late African American civil rights activist, author and legal scholar Pauli Murray spent a lifetime taking on the system—fighting inequality, institutionalized racism and gender bias.
Just how successful Murray became in waging those battles emerges in the Amazon Studios documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, and produced and co-written by Talleah Bridges McMahon.
“I was really moved by really Pauli’s tenacity,” McMahon said during a panel discussion of the film at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season event. “[Pauli] had so many obstacles in the way, starting from being a young child who was going to a segregated school. And at a very young age Pauli understood that to be unjust. Pauli could see the difference between the schools for Black children and how few resources they had compared to the white students. And it wasn’t long before Pauli set...
Just how successful Murray became in waging those battles emerges in the Amazon Studios documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, and produced and co-written by Talleah Bridges McMahon.
“I was really moved by really Pauli’s tenacity,” McMahon said during a panel discussion of the film at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season event. “[Pauli] had so many obstacles in the way, starting from being a young child who was going to a segregated school. And at a very young age Pauli understood that to be unjust. Pauli could see the difference between the schools for Black children and how few resources they had compared to the white students. And it wasn’t long before Pauli set...
- 11/21/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
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