My Name Is Pauli Murray (2021)
Coming Out at September 17, 2021 in limited theaters and October 1 on Amazon Prime
Documentary
My Name Is Pauli Murray is documentary film directed by Julie Cohen & Betsy West and written by Julie Cohen, Betsy West, Talleah Bridges McMahon & Cinque Northern. The film primiered at June 15, 2021 on Sundance Film Festival.
Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat, a full decade before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned separate-but-equal legislation, Pauli Murray was already knee-deep fighting for social justice. A pioneering attorney, activist, priest and dedicated memoirist, Murray shaped landmark litigation—and consciousness— around race and gender equity. As an African American youth raised in the segregated South— who was also wrestling with broader notions of gender identity—Pauli understood, intrinsically, what it was to exist beyond previously accepted categories and cultural norms. Both Pauli’s personal path and tireless advocacy foreshadowed some of the most politically consequential issues of our time. Told largely in Pauli’s own words, My Name is Pauli Murray is a candid recounting of that unique and extraordinary journey.
Directors: Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Writers: Julie Cohen, Betsy West, Talleah Bridges McMahon, Cinque Northern
Stars: Patricia Bell-Scott, Pauli Murray, Dolores Chandler, Brittney Cooper, Sonia Pressman Fuentes, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Marghretta McBean
►Cast
Patricia Bell-Scott | ► | |
Pauli Murray | ► | |
Dolores Chandler | ► | |
Brittney Cooper | ► | |
Sonia Pressman Fuentes | ► | |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | ► | |
Marghretta McBean | ► | |
Ernest Meyers | ► | |
Mary Norris | ► | |
Eleanor Holmes Norton | ► | |
Rosalind Rosenberg | ► | |
Karen Rouse Ross | ► | |
Reggie Sapp | ► | |
Inez Smith Reid | ► | |
Chase Strangio | ► | |
Raquel Willis | ► | |
Keleona Jiminez | ► | Reader ‘Dark Testament’ (voice) |
Ania Barbee | ► | Durham, NC Student |
Grant Pareja | ► | Durham, NC Student |
Lourd Scales | ► | Durham, NC Student |
Gabrielle Tita | ► | Durham, NC Student |
Alecia West | ► | Durham, NC Student |
Geovanni Barrios | ► | Pauli Murray College Discussion |
Brendan Campbell | ► | Pauli Murray College Discussion |
Brandon Chambers | ► | Pauli Murray College Discussion |
Jack Chapman | ► | Pauli Murray College Discussion |
Sarah Geach | ► | Pauli Murray College Discussion |
Abigail Grimes | ► | Pauli Murray College Discussion |
Olivia Horton | ► | Pauli Murray College Discussion |