Profiles the life and achievements of Spike Lee, discussing his childhood, career as a filmmaker, avocation of African-Americans in the entertainment industry, and other related topics.
Chronicles Julia Dash's sixteen-year struggle to complete her film "Daughters of the Dust", which, when it was released in 1992, was the first nationally distributed feature by an African-American woman.
Traces the history of African-American filmmaking, from the "race movies" of the early twentieth century to the work of such directors as Spike Lee, John Singleton, and Gina Prince-Bythewood in the 1990s and beyond.