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Suzanne Suzanne. 1982. USA. Directed by Camille Billops, James Hatch. Courtesy IndieCollect

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Suzanne Suzanne. 1982. USA. Directed by Camille Billops, James Hatch. With Billie Browning, Suzanne Browning. 4K digital restoration by IndieCollect in collaboration with Dion Hatch of the Billops Hatch Estate, with funding from the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress; courtesy Third World Newsreel. Archive repository: UCLA Film & Television Archive. World premiere. 30 min.

A sculptor, ceramicist, photographer, painter, and nurturer of underappreciated Black artists, Camille Billops has only recently earned her own proper due as a filmmaker. Together with her husband James Hatch, Billops wove together documentary observation, fictional restagings, and oral history to create brutally candid portraits of her own family (Finding Christa) and the postwar Black experience in America (The KKK Boutique: Ain’t Just Rednecks). In Suzanne Suzanne, their first collaboration, Billops and Hatch confront her niece’s harrowing experiences of abuse and heroin addiction.

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