S. Pearl Sharp

Multimedia documentary project profiling pioneering, emerging, innovative and otherwise compelling Los Angeles-based female artists, philosophers and social entrepreneurs.

Jessie Maple, who made history as the first black woman admitted to New York’s camera operators union, explores the bond between twin college basketball players, scripted by S. Pearl Sharp.

A girl growing up in the 1940’s makes humorous and heartfelt attempts to be “more than ordinary” as she struggles to find an identity between her Black American and Native American heritages. Semi-animated with vintage photographs it features original water color and animation cell art by Carlos Spivey.

A visual poem on identity. Crafted from one of S. Pearl’s poems, it encourages women to reject imposed beauty standards and invent their own identity. Featuring actress Barbara-O. The version has an audio remix with vocals by Sharp and Dwight Trible. 1984 & 2009 4 min.

A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old boyfriend still living there.

A young woman whose baby died in childbirth refuses to believe it and has dreams that her child is still alive and in danger. A scientist who is conducting experiments about dreams tries to help her.

Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to succeed in a field that is dominated by white performers in blackface, and the other is a composer fighting to break away from the stereotypes associated with black minstrel performers.

Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.