Alile Sharon Larkin
Alile Sharon Larkin is an American film producer, writer and director. She is associated with the L.A. Rebellion , which is said to have collectively imagined and created a Black cinema against the conventions of Hollywood and Blaxploitation film. Larkin is considered to be part of the second wave of these revolutionary black filmmakers, along with Julie Dash and Bill Woodbury. Larkin also cofounded the Black Filmmakers Collective.
Larkin was born in Chicago on May 6, 1953. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities in the Creative Writing program at the University of Southern California, graduating in 1975. Larkin was then enrolled as one of the original members of the EthnoCommunications program at UCLA, until it disbanded. Larkin then registered at UCLAs prestigious film school in the Motion PictureTelevision Program, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1982. In 1991 Larkin graduated with a Master of Education degree from California State University in Los Angeles, and went on to become an educator for the nextyears.
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