Round 5: Tossup 2

The death of this director’s wife due to a horse injury inspired him to film a scene in which a philanthropist decides to fund a woman’s school instead of a church, after accidentally running over her with his car. On the song “Nas is Good,” Nas describes how the “camera rolls like” this director. In a film by this director, an old preacher looks into the camera and bemoans how he has “sold [his] birthright. All for a miserable mess of pottage” soon after he has been kicked in the rear by a churchgoer. Many of this director’s films star his muse Evelyn Preer. This director, who adapted two novels by Charles Chesnutt, cast Paul (*) Robeson in his debut film role. A 1920 film by this director cuts between a man’s sexual assault of his biracial daughter Sylvia and a graphic lynching, so as to directly attack The Birth of a Nation. For 10 points, Within Our Gates is a film (10[1])by what director considered the first African-American feature filmmaker? ■END■ (10[1])

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