James Mannas and Brian Stuart-Young

James Mannas was born on 15 September 1941 in Newark and grew up in Harlem. Trained at the New York Institute of Photography, then in film at the School of Visual Arts and New York University, he was in 1963 one of the founders of the Kamoinge collective, and his images of black New York life have entered the National Gallery of Art. Settled in Guyana in the early seventies, as film adviser to the Ministry of Information and then director of Gillham Productions, on his return he made a documentary on the black churches of Brooklyn.

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• Feature filmAggro SeizemanJames Mannas and Brian Stuart-Young · 1975Cinema