Katherine Dunham

Movies

In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Herself
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
Green Mansions
Other
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.