Camille Billops

Camille Josephine Billops (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Silimiin goli August biɛɣ'pin'yini dali yuuni 1933 ka daa kpi Silimiin goli June dahin yini dali yuuni 2019) daa nyɛla African-American nuchee ni baŋda mini shikuru baŋda.

 Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim 
Billops nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Los Angeles, California ka o lammba nyɛ Alma Gilmore ŋun yina South Carolina mini Luscious Billops ŋun yina Texas. 

 Awards and honors 
 1963: Fellowship from Huntington Hardford Foundation 
 1975: MacDowell Colony Fellowship
 1975-76: International Women's Year Award
 1992: Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize for documentaries for Finding Christa
 1994: James VanDerZee Award, Brandywine Graphic Workshop

 Filmography 
 1982: Suzanne, Suzanne (Documentary short) – Director
 1987: Older Women and Love (Documentary short) – Director
 1991: Finding Christa (Documentary) – Director, producer, writer
 1994: The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks – Director
 1998: Take Your Bags (Short) – Director
 2002: A String of Pearls (Documentary) – Director, producer, production designer
 2009: And That's the Way It Is (Short) – Production manager

 Selected exhibitions 
 2019: Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia. 
2016: Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch, Atlanta, Georgia.
1997: Inside the Minstrel Mask, Noel Fine Art Acquisitions, Charlotte, North Carolina
 1991: Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Oakland, California
 1990: Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia
 1986: Calkins Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
 1983: American Center, Karachi, Pakistan; Pescadores Hsien Library, Makung, Republic of China
 1980: Buchandlung Welt, Hamburg, Germany
 1997: Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
 1973: Ornette Coleman's Artist House, New York, New York
 1965: Gallerie Akhenaton, Cairo, Egypt

 Kundivihira 

 Further reading 
  (biographical article)
  (interview)
 The Art, Activism, and Archives of James V. Hatch and Camille Billops at Emory University (online exhibit)
 Lekatsas, Barbara. "Encounters: The Film Odyssey of Camille Billops". Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 25, No. 2, Black Film Issue (Summer, 1991), pp. 395–408. 
 Cutler, Janet et al. "Camille Billops: Cultural Archaeologist". Black Camera, Vol. 8, No.1 (Fall, 1993), p. 4. 
 Williams, John. "RE-CREATING THEIR MEDIA IMAGE: Two Generations of Black Women Filmmakers". Cinéaste, Vol. 20, No.3 (1994), pp. 38–41. 
 Smith, Valerie. "Reconstituting the Image: The Emergent Black Woman Director". Callaloo, No.37 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 709–719.

 External links 


 The Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Archives at Emory University
 Hatch-Billops Collection on NYC-ARTS
Camille Billops and James V. Hatch archives at Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, Emory University

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