Beginning in the late ’60s, a new wave of Black graduate filmmakers emerged from UCLA, turning their cameras toward the lives Hollywood overlooked. Not unified in style but on common ground, the films of the L.A. Rebellion blend experimentation with lived realities, insisting on truth over tropes. These films by filmmakers such as Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Larry Clark, and Zeinabu irene Davis have reshaped the pulse of American cinema, creating new possibilities in Black storytelling along the way.
