{"id":6,"date":"2021-10-26T21:49:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T21:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/zora\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:36:08","slug":"zora-neale-hurston-institute-for-documentary-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/zora\/","title":{"rendered":"Zora Neale Hurston Institute for Documentary Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-secondary pt-0 pb-5 my-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"display-4 text-transform-none font-weight-normal font-serif mt-5 mt-md-0\">Zora Neale Hurston Institute <em>for<\/em> Documentary\u00a0Studies<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead font-slab-serif font-weight-bold font-italic my-5\">The Zora Neale Hurston Institute for Documentary Studies, at the University of Central Florida, provides a dynamic cultural context for students to practice their craft as storytellers while collecting and documenting the cultural histories of marginalized communities.<\/p>\n<p>This effort affects change in the lives of our students and underscores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/about-ucf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the University&#8217;s five goals.<\/a> In collaboration with community-based art groups and close partnership with the internationally renowned ZORA!<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Festival in the Town of Eatonville, we are beginning to bring local and national interest to the Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Browse our website and view the variety of projects. You can also find us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wucf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WUCF-TV<\/a> (click original programs, then Profiles), Bright House Networks Digital Cable Channel 1\/UCF TV\/WBCC and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in creating cultural identity, sustaining community heritage and empowering communities with a donation to the UCF Foundation earmarked for the Zora Neale Hurston Institute for Documentary Studies account. Thanks for your interest and support.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid header-media media-background-container bg-primary py-5 mb-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-background object-fit-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/zora\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/bg-fragment-yellow.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"text-center embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jesse Leroy Brown: First African American Navy Fighter Pilot\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XyAMpK0UU1Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-secondary mb-0\"\n\t\t\tid=\"vision\"\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"display-4 font-weight-normal\">Vision<\/h2>\n<p>As a significant element of the UCF College of Humanities, the Hurston Institute will bring a world focus to the theory and practice of forms of storytelling, cinematic expression, research and programs that encourage civic engagement and meaningfully address the work of excluded communities using an arts, culture and humanities framework that is located outside the interests of the mainstream. Its&#8217; concern is creating cultural identity, sustaining community heritage and empowering communities. One of its visions is to preserve the cultural legacy its namesake embodies by employing a multidisciplinary approach to the study and presentation of communities located throughout the African Diaspora, with particular emphasis on Hurston&#8217;s hometown, Eatonville, Florida, the oldest incorporated municipality in the United States established by people of African ancestry. The Hurston Institute will work in close collaboration with the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P.E.C.) to develop &#8220;An Eatonville Curriculum&#8221; which will provide a basis for community-wide education and lifelong learning, while at the same time, providing a dynamic cultural context, for UCF students to practice their craft. Further, the Hurston Institute and P.E.C. will collaborate on establishing a structure which will insure that Hurston&#8217;s multidisciplinary approach to documenting and preserving the culture of people of African ancestry becomes &#8220;institutionalized&#8221; within the American academy. The African Diasporic focus of the Hurston Institute will encompass most specifically the places where Zora Neale Hurston conducted field studies, namely in Haiti and in Jamaica, with additional program outreach to various regions of the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>Our world cinemas framework recognizes the convergent interests of marginalized communities, whose needs are not addressed in mainstream cinema. We are concerned not only with the storytelling, intellectual, artistic and technological, but also with the civic implications of filmmaking. As a result, on the local scene, the institute seeks to study the use of cinema within a framework of community and social responsibility as well as foster a filmmaking practice built on the creation and management of independent films with an understanding of the entrepreneurial and aesthetic demands of contemporary society. Our definition of documentary includes the traditional genre of reportage, but utilizes a broader view of documentary as a way of seeing\u2014a technique of experiencing, interrogating and reflecting on our world through cinema. Our principal concern is the exploration of forms of storytelling that allow our target communities to advantageously use film, video, digital media and different types of programs, in innovative and creative ways to articulate community voice and agency.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-primary-t-3 mb-0 py-5\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row mt-1\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<!-- - Card - --><\/p>\n<div class=\"mb-4 col-6 col-md-4\">\n<div class=\"card card-secondary border-0 h-100\">\n<div><a class=\"stretched-link text-secondary\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"card-img-top\" src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/zora\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/Zora-doc1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-block d-flex flex-column justify-content-between p-0\"><a class=\"card-title mb-0 text-secondary p-3 pb-1 h-100\"><small>On location for a documentary shoot.<\/small><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- - Card - --><\/p>\n<div class=\"mb-4 col-6 col-md-4\">\n<div class=\"card card-secondary border-0 h-100\">\n<div><a class=\"stretched-link text-secondary\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"card-img-top\" src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/zora\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/2010-ZoraFestival.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-block d-flex flex-column justify-content-between p-0\"><a class=\"card-title mb-0 text-secondary p-3 pb-1 h-100\"><small>UCF College of Arts and Humanities Dean Jose Fernadez with the cast of Sun To Sun at the 2010 Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities.<\/small><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- - Card - --><\/p>\n<div class=\"mb-4 col-6 col-md-4\">\n<div class=\"card card-secondary border-0 h-100\">\n<div><a class=\"stretched-link text-secondary\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"card-img-top\" src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/zora\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/Workshop3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-block d-flex flex-column justify-content-between p-0\"><a class=\"card-title mb-0 text-secondary p-3 pb-1 h-100\"><small>UCF College of Arts and Humanities Dean Jose Fernadez recognizes young filmmakers at Summer Film Camp organized by UCF CREATE and the Zora Institute.<\/small><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-primary-lightest mb-0 pb-5\"\n\t\t\tid=\"resources\"\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container py-2\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"h1 heading-underline pb-3 mb-3 letter-spacing-1\">Resources<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled text-default\">\n<li><span class=\"lead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cah.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCF College of Arts and Humanities<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zorafestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africana.cah.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCF Africana American Studies<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mll.cah.ucf.edu\/program\/latin-american-studies-ba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCF Latin American Studies programs<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wgst.cah.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCF Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies<\/a> <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-secondary mb-3\"\n\t\t\tid=\"staff\"\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"h1 heading-underline pb-3 mb-4\"><span class=\"letter-spacing-1\">Contact<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 mb-5\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mr-3 img-circle rounded float-left\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.cah.ucf.edu\/resize.php?filename=10.jpg&amp;sz=2\" alt=\"Lyman Brodie\" \/><strong>Lyman Brodie<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Executive Associate Dean<\/em><br \/>\nLyman.Brodie@ucf.edu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 mb-3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mr-3 img-circle rounded float-left\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.cah.ucf.edu\/resize.php?filename=566.jpeg&amp;sz=2\" alt=\"Wendy S\u00e1nchez P\u00e9rez\" \/><strong>Wendy S\u00e1nchez P\u00e9rez<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Executive Assistant II<\/em><br \/>\nWendy.Sanchez@ucf.edu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullscreen.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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