Newly Restored

EMMA MAE

Directed by Jamaa Fanaka

USA, 1976, 1h 40min, DCP

Newly Restored

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In Jamaa Fanaka’s low-budget wonder, made while he was a student at UCLA, a young black woman, born and raised down South, comes to Los Angeles when her mother dies. In the big city she finds injustice as well, so she fights hard with all the tools at her disposal.

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