The Other Joséphine Baker

2016 • 64min

Behind the nudity of this sculptural « Ebony Venus » Freda Josephine Mac Donald was a committed artist, a convinced militant and the mother of a multicultural family. Along the years she fought for numerous causes, first glory and then black and oppressed people. This film is an intimate portrait of a mixed blood African American woman, a less known side of Josephine Baker. A woman born in the USA and one of the precursors of a political and democratic change.

Festival Femmes d’ici et Cinéma 2020

PAN African Film Festival Los Angeles de 2013: Sélection officielle

Festival de Rio 2013

Festival St-Louis, Missouri: Compétition Officielle 2012

Festival International de Toronto 2011

Festival Rome 2011

Festival de Cuba Muestra del Caraibes: Compétition Officielle 2011

Festival Le Fesman Dakar: Clôture du Festival 2011

Festival Paris-ile de France: Compétition Officielle

Festival Panafricain d’Alger

More to see:

— Speech by the Deputy Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the occasion of the opening of the Josephine Baker photo exhibition

Press article about the movie First part et Second part

Technical data

Director: Philip Judith-Gozlin

Scenario: Philip Judith-Gozlin & Brian Bouillon-Baker

Diffusion: Groupe AB, France TV, Arcades

Distributor Wide House, ADAV