Picking Tribes

DVD

Forty wide-ranging essays and commentaries broadcast on NPR’s The Tavis Smiley Show, News and Notes, Tell Me More and other broadcast and print print media. Includes updates on what made the news after a piece aired, and the challenging and sometimes poignant response from listeners.

Reviews

“Ingenious use of graphics and animation shape a charmingly wry, tender story.”
–Los Angeles Times

“In this brief but delightful vignette a young woman of mixed heritages traces her identity-seeking process from childhood to adulthood as she attempts to answer the question, “Who am I?” …Recommended for general audiences.”/Sociology
–American Library Association

“Heartfelt, often hilarious…A fine, spirited portrayal of a girl’s search for identity.”
–Moving Pictures Bulletin

“As a visual, it works well to delineate the historical fact of our intersecting cultural and spiritual ties with Native Americans. the students love it; and so do I.”
–Prof. Alexis De Veaux, Buffalo, NY

Broadcast on The Learning Channel & PBS TV

1st Place, Black American Cinema Society

Paul Robeson Award, Newark Black Film Festival

A “Prized Pieces” Selection, National Black Programming Consortium

Distributed by Women Make Movies www.wmm.com
Available on DVD, 16mm and 16mm – French track
Available on DVD with the short “Back Inside Herself”

Picking Tribes Carlos SPS Work 1

Artist Carlos Spivey creates animation cells for Picking Tribes.
(r) S. Pearl Sharp, 1988. photo: Roland Charles