Cora Unashamed
Cora Unashamed is a 2000 American made-for-television drama film from The American Collection directed by Deborah Pratt, starring Regina Taylor and Cherry Jones. The film was shot on location in October 1999 in central Iowa. Cities such as Ames, Cambridge and Story City were used. The movie is based on a short story by the same name in The Ways of White Folks, a 1934 collection of short stories by Langston Hughes. Cinematographer Ernest Holzman won an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award, for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series'/Pilot for Network or Basic Broadcast TV, for his work on this film. David Herbert Donald called the short story "a brilliantly realized portrait of an isolated black woman in a small Middle Western town, who stoically survives her own sorrows but in the end lashes out against the hypocrisy of the whites who employ her."
| Cora Unashamed | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Langston Hughes (short story) Ann Peacock (teleplay) |
| Directed by | Deborah Pratt |
| Starring | Regina Taylor Cherry Jones Ellen Muth Michael Gaston Kohl Sudduth Arlen Dean Snyder CCH Pounder |
| Theme music composer | Patrice Rushen |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producers | Ronald Colby Rebecca Eaton Anne Hopkins Stephen Kulczycki Marian Rees |
| Cinematography | Ernest Holzman |
| Editor | Debra I. Moore |
| Running time | 93 minutes |
| Production companies | Alt Films WGBH |
| Original release | |
| Release | USA: October 25, 2000 Iceland: June 25, 2001 (video premiere) |