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Fannie's Film

  • January 1981
  • 15mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Fronza Woods,

    Starring

    Fannie Drayton,

    A 65-year-old cleaning woman for a professional dancers' exercise studio performs her job while telling us in voiceover about her life, hopes, goals, and feelings. A challenge to mainstream media's ongoing stereotypes of women of color who earn their living as domestic workers, this seemingly simple documentary achieves a quiet revolution: the expressive portrait of a fully realized individual.