He Insists! From Apprentice Editor to Elder Statesman of the Black Documentary Tradition: An Interview with Sam Pollard

Josslyn Luckett is an assistant professor of cinema studies at New York University. Her current book project, Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A. (University of California Press, forthcoming) examines the pre-history of the filmmakers known as the “L.A. Rebellion,” by engaging the multiracial media “insurgents” of UCLA’s Ethno-Communications Program, whose activist film work changed the face of independent media in Los Angeles and beyond.