Currently Browsing: 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.
The Brooklyn Public Library’s 2021 LitFilm kicked off with a screening and Q&A from director Lynn Novick and producer Sarah Botstein.
Starting Monday, September 20 and running through Saturday, September 26, the Brooklyn Public Library will be hosting LitFilm: A BPL Film Festival About Writers.
"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."
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.