{"id":18031,"date":"2015-11-18T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/5-questions-baddddd-sonia-sanchez-director-sabrina-gordon\/"},"modified":"2015-11-18T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:54:00","slug":"5-questions-baddddd-sonia-sanchez-director-sabrina-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/5-questions-baddddd-sonia-sanchez-director-sabrina-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Questions With ‘BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez’ Director Sabrina Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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5 Questions With ‘BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez’ Director Sabrina Gordon<\/h3>\n

The film about legendary poet, playwright, educator and activist Sonia Sanchez hits the country's biggest documentary festival tonight. Co-director Sabrina Gordon explains why Sanchez was the perfect subject. 

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\n By Sameer Rao<\/span> Nov 18, 2015<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Sonia Sanchez has been at the forefront of major creative and socio-political movements since she began her career in the 1960s as a Black Arts Movement writer and the founder of the Broadside Quartet poetry workshop. In addition to publishing more than a dozen books and seven plays, she designed courses for one of the country’s first university-based Black Studies programs. Sanchez has spoken at more than 500 colleges and universities, inspiring generations of activists, literary types and writers. She was a longtime educator at Temple University in Philadelphia and was named the city’s first poet laureate.<\/p>\n

Still, Sabrina Gordon, who co-directed the new documentary \u201cBaddDDD Sonia Sanchez<\/a>\u201d with Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, noticed a divide between people who know about Sanchez and those who are clueless. This relative lack of public awareness, she says, motivated her. \"BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez\" will screen at DOC NYC<\/a>, which one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the United States. We talked with Gordon about Sanchez as a film subject, her political struggles and getting fans Questlove and Talib Kweli on camera. <\/p>\n