About this episode

Zoë Poindexter discusses her documentary inspired by Black Love Day and the importance of positive storytelling in Black communities.

In this episode of The Truth In This Art, the guest is Zoë Poindexter! About Zoë Poindexter: Documentary filmmaker, producer, and director based in Washington, DC. She attended journalism graduate school at Georgetown University, where she continues to work as a documentary teacher's assistant, and specializes in nonfiction storytelling. In our conversation, Poindexter walks through her journey to A Revolution Called Love , a feature documentary inspired by Black Love Day—a holiday created in DC in the nineties by Mama Ayo Handy-Kendi. After living in DC for almost ten years without ever hearing about it, she called the founder and asked to attend. She showed up in purple—the colors of Black Love Day, which happens to be her favorite color—stayed for the entire seven-hour ceremony, and came back saying, "Yes, this needs to be made into a film." The documentary is structured around the holiday's five tenets: love for the creator, love for yourself, love for family, love for community, and love for the Black diaspora. We explore how she's weaving community voices throughout—filming interviews with Black Washingtonians defining what those tenets mean to them, with select responses…

People in this episode

Host: Rob Lee

Guest: Zoë Poindexter

Topics covered

• documentary filmmaking
• Black Love Day
• nonfiction storytelling
• community voices
• positive storytelling

Keywords

• documentary
• Black Love Day
• Zoë Poindexter
• nonfiction
• storytelling
• community
• positive stories

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Georgetown University

Books & works: A Revolution Called Love

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