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Title The wedding proposal / a documentary by Anjanette Levert ; written, directed and produced by T. Anjanette Levert
Published New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (22 min.)) : sound, color
Summary The filmmaker, an educated African-American journalist, celebrates her 35th birthday and acknowledges to her dismay that she is STILL unmarried. The Wedding Proposal is an at times humorous, at times heart-wrenching personal journey to find out how this could have happened to her. For answers she turns to her family, her friends and "the villain"--Thomas Lopez Pierre, Managing Partner of The Harlem Club, a private social club for professional African-Americans. Any professional man is eligible to join, but women must be under 35, single, have no children; they must also submit head and body photos. Thomas points out the troubling statistic that of those African-Americans that graduate college, 65% are women. That leaves a shortage of available professional men for women like Anjanette. She gathers together her friends, a lively group of "Sassy Sistas", to see how they cope with this reality in their daily lives. Anjanette questions the assumption that you are not successful, no matter how interesting your career, if you are not a wife and mother too. She rethinks her life choices that brought her to this point. And she tries to extricate her true hopes and dreams from all of the societal expectations placed on African-American women, in order to find, and follow, her own path
Credits Directory of photography, Yvie Raij ; editors, Elmer Bowman, T. Anjanette Levert, Suhuan Lin ; music, Daniel Solammon
Audience For High School; College; Adult audiences
Notes English
Black Documentary Collective Film Screenings, 2006
City Visions Film Festival, 2006
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, 2006
Independent Film Projects Buzz Cuts, New York City 2006
Independent Black Film Festival, Atlanta, 2006
Online resource; title from title screen (viewed February 21, 2022)
Subject African American women -- Attitudes
African Americans -- Marriage.
Marriage -- United States.
African American women -- Attitudes
African Americans -- Marriage
Marriage
United States
Genre/Form Documentary
documentary film.
Short films
Nonfiction films
Documentary films
Autobiographical films
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Autobiographical films.
Documentary films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Courts métrages.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Levert, Anjanette, film director, film producer, editor of moving image work.
Raij, Yvie, director of photography
Bowman, Elmer (Film editor), editor of moving image work.
Lin, Suhuan, editor of moving image work
Solammon, Daniel, composer (expression)
Filmakers Library, inc., distributor.