Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Ayoka (\"Ayo\") Chenzira (born 1953) is an independent African-American producer, director, animator, writer, and experimental film and transmedia storyteller. She is the first African American women animator and one of a handful of black experimental filmmakers working since the late 1970s. She has earned international acclaim for her experimental, documentary, animation, and cross-genre productions. Her work, as well as her efforts as one of the first African American woman film educator, have lead some in the press to describe her as a media activist for social justice and challenging representations of African American stereotypes in the mainstream media.Chenzira is most well-known for her 35mm feature films Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People (1984) and Alma’s Rainbow (1993). Many of her recent works as a transmedia storyteller play with the increasingly digital world through art that combines material objects with digital environments, including Chenzira and her daughter HaJ's collaboration HERadventure (2013)."@en }
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- Ayoka_Chenzira abstract "Ayoka (\"Ayo\") Chenzira (born 1953) is an independent African-American producer, director, animator, writer, and experimental film and transmedia storyteller. She is the first African American women animator and one of a handful of black experimental filmmakers working since the late 1970s. She has earned international acclaim for her experimental, documentary, animation, and cross-genre productions. Her work, as well as her efforts as one of the first African American woman film educator, have lead some in the press to describe her as a media activist for social justice and challenging representations of African American stereotypes in the mainstream media.Chenzira is most well-known for her 35mm feature films Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People (1984) and Alma’s Rainbow (1993). Many of her recent works as a transmedia storyteller play with the increasingly digital world through art that combines material objects with digital environments, including Chenzira and her daughter HaJ's collaboration HERadventure (2013).".