Reggie Ugwu
The project:
Brilliance Is All We Have is a narrative history of Black filmmakers and Black self-definition in American cinema. Through deep reportage and research, it weaves together intimate, character-driven accounts of the construction of Black-American identity and the American idea in film after emancipation, from Oscar Micheaux in the era the medium was born, through the journeys of groundbreaking 21st century filmmakers including Barry Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, and Jordan Peele.