Cora Unashamed

Cora Unashamed
Distributed by	Publick Broadcasting System (PBS)
Directed by	Deborah Pratt
Produced by	Ronald Colby Rebecca Eaton Anne Hopkins Stephen Kulczycki Marian Rees
Written by	Langston Hughes (short story) Ann Peacock (teleplay)
Starring	Regina Taylor Cherry Jones Ellen Muth Michael Gaston Kohl Sudduth Arlen Dean Snyder CCH Pounder Tinashe Kachingwe Molly Graham Ben Easter Tiffany M. Wren Melissa Albright Tom Woodward Bethany Larson David Fritts Stephen George John Easter Logan Rees
Music by	Patrice Rushen
Cinematography	Ernest Holzman
Editing by	Debra I. Moore
Production company	Alt Films WGBH
Country	United States
Language	English
Release date	USA: October 25, 2000 (2000-10-25) Iceland: June 25, 2001 (2001-06-25) (video premiere) Germany: October 18, 2001 (2001-10-18) (video premiere)
Running time	93 minutes

Cora Unashamed is a TV movie from The American Collection directed by Deborah M. Pratt, starring Regina Taylor and Cherry Jones, and released in 2000. The movie is based on a short story by the same name in The Ways of White Folks, a collection of short stories by Langston Hughes.^[1] Cinematographer Ernest Holzman won an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award, for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series'/Pilot for Network or Basic Broadcast TV, for his work on this film.^[2] David Herbert Donald called the short story "a brilliantly realized portrait of an isolated black woman in a small Middle Western town, who stoically survives her own sorrows but in the end lashes out against the hypocrisy of the whites who employ her."^[3]

References

1. ^ "Cora Unashamed (2000) (TV)". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233483/combined. Retrieved 2010-07-16. 
2. ^ "Cora Unashamed (2000) (TV) - Awards". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233483/awards. Retrieved 2010-07-16. 
3. ^ Donald, David Herbert (September 1, 1996). "Good Race Men". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/22/specials/hughes-stories96.html. Retrieved 2010-07-16. 

External links

• Cora Unashamed at the Internet Movie Database
• Cora Unashamed at Rotten Tomatoes
• "Masterpiece Theatre | The American Collection | Cora Unashamed". PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/cora/. Retrieved 2010-07-16. 
• Lazere, Arthur. "Cora Unashamed". CultureVulture.net. http://www.culturevulture.net/Television/Cora.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-16. 
• Mark Deming, All Movie Guide. "Cora Unashamed Synopsis". Fandango. http://www.fandango.com/coraunashamed_v227001/summary. Retrieved 2010-07-16.