St. Clair Bourne
St. Clair Bourne ( born February 16, 1943 in Harlem, † December 15, 2007 in Brooklyn ) was an Emmy -nominated American documentary film director, film producer and screenwriter.
Life
Bourne visited in the 1960s, Georgetown University, where he was expelled following a protest from campus. Then he volunteered at the Peace Corps and arrived in Lima used. Later the castle from his studies in journalism and political science at Syracuse University. He then got a scholarship to an art college, after a peace demonstration on the university campus, he was excluded there.
In the early 1970s he founded his own production company, Chamba, which he headed until his death and with whom he realized more than 40 films (including for HBO, PBS, BBC and National Geographic ); its partly controversial documentaries dealt largely with racism against African- Americans, and African-American role models such as Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson.
At the time of his death he was working on a documentary about the photographer Ernest Withers, who had accompanied Martin Luther King on his public appearances.