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Revisiting the Legacy of Flannery O’Connor

On this day in 2019, Flannery was released in theaters. The first documentary to detail the life of renowned writer Flannery O’Connor, this is a creatively-produced, sensitively-crafted, and all around beautiful film directed by Elizabeth Coffman.

Elizabeth Coffman is a documentary film director, writer, and producer whose work often centers around communities in crisis.… read more.

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BPL’s 2021 LitFilm Festival Brings Writers’ Lives to Film

N. Scott Momaday and Jill Momaday at LitFilm
The Brooklyn Public Library’s 2021 LitFilm kicked off with a screening and Q&A from director Lynn Novick and producer Sarah Botstein. 
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BPL’s 2021 Virtual ‘LitFilm Series’ Showcases Women Writers

Starting Monday, September 20 and running through Saturday, September 26, the Brooklyn Public Library will be hosting LitFilm: A BPL Film Festival About Writers.
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Elizabeth Coffman on bringing Flannery O’Connor to a new audience

"The number one goal of our film I think has been accomplished, which was to talk about her, and to get people to read her work more, and get her more in the national discussion."
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Friends, enemies, and Angels in New Flannery O’Connor Documentary

O'Connor's own experience as a student had not been so different from mine: while grad school required me to move, alone, between my room and the library for most of the day, O’Connor chose to live her life like this.
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