S. Pearl Sharp  

S. Pearl Sharp has focused on cultural arts, Black Diaspora history and wellness, working in radio, theatre, music, literature and in film on both sides of the camera. Her semi-animated short Picking Tribes (1988) is archived in the Women Make Movies collection of the Motion Picture Academy (AMPAS). Documentaries include The Healing Passage/ Voices From The Water (2004) which aired on The Documentary Channel, Life Is A Saxophone (1985) on poet-griot Kamau Daáood, the controversial women's health video, It's O.K. To Peek, produced with Arabella Chavers-Julien, and a dozen cultural arts docs for the City of Los Angeles’ Channel 35. She has put poetry on film in the shorts Back Inside Herself (1984), Channeled (2009), and Blood Bank (2022). Print publications include Black Women For Beginners and The Evening News, her collected commentaries and essays broadcast on NPR and Pacifica Radio Network. S. Pearl is a founding member of the Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers {BADWest} and one of her joys is mentoring new documentary filmmakers.
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