Filmmakers and Producers

Bill Gunn

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Ganja and Hess
Bill Gunn
1970, 110 min., Color, US
This extraordinary foray into the realms of Black consciousness has acquired deserved status as a cinema classic. The vampire film genre is used to create a mythical vision of the forces that shape Dr. Hess Green, a wealthy recluse driven to enact a ritual. Ganja discovers his bloody curse, becomes ...


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