Byron Hurt
{{short description|American film director}}
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Byron Patrick Hurt is an American activist, lecturer, writer, and award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Biography
Byron Hurt attended Northwestern University School to study Journalism. While attending Northwestern, Hurt played football as a quarterback,Bigg, Matthew and [https://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSN2017076720070220 "U.S. hip-hop film sparks debate on masculinity"], Reuters, February 20, 2007. and founded God Bless the Child Productions before graduating in 1993.
Upon graduation he was hired by the university's Center for the Study of Sport in Society to help form the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program with the purpose of educating young black men about gender and sexual violence. This experience led Hurt to produce and direct the documentary I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America. Hurt is also the former associate director of the United States Marine Corps gender violence prevention program.
In 2010, he hosted the Emmy-nominated television show, Reel Works with Byron Hurt.{{cite web |date=November 4, 2013 |title=November 11 Provost's Lecture with Filmmaker Byron Hurt |url=http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/happenings/oncampus/november-11-provosts-lecture-with-filmmaker-byron-hurt/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116172716/http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/happenings/oncampus/november-11-provosts-lecture-with-filmmaker-byron-hurt/ |archive-date=January 16, 2015 |access-date=January 27, 2015 |publisher=Stony Brook University |df=mdy-all}} His documentary Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival{{cite web |date=February 22, 2013 |title=Beyond beats and rhymes. How far has hip hop come and where will it go next? |url=http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2013/beyond-beats-and-rhymes |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621061021/http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2013/beyond-beats-and-rhymes |archive-date=June 21, 2015 |access-date=January 27, 2015 |publisher=Stanford University, The Clayman Institute for Gender Research |df=mdy-all}} and broadcast nationally on PBS in 2007.{{cite web |title=Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes |url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/classroom/hiphop.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208051449/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/classroom/hiphop.html |archive-date=December 8, 2007 |publisher=PBS}} His film Soul Food Junkies received the Best Documentary Award at the 2012 American Black Film Festival and aired on PBS' Independent Lens in January 2013.{{cite web |title=Soul Food Junkies |url=https://www.pbs.org/food/shows/soul-food-junkies/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150127174310/http://www.pbs.org/food/shows/soul-food-junkies/ |archive-date=January 27, 2015 |publisher=PBS}}
In 2022, he released a documentary on Hazing, exploring the culture of hazing following the tragic hazing deaths of young people.{{Cite web |title=Independent Lens & Independent Television Service (ITVS) Board Byron Hurt's Hazing Documentary - 2016 Completion Eyed |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/independent-lens-independent-television-service-itvs-board-byron-hurts-hazing-documentary-2016-completion-eyed-20150407 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222230153/http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/independent-lens-independent-television-service-itvs-board-byron-hurts-hazing-documentary-2016-completion-eyed-20150407 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |accessdate=2015-12-13 |website=Shadow and Act |df=mdy-all}}
Personal life
On September 30, 2006, Byron Hurt married Kenya Felice Crumel at their home in Plainfield, New Jersey.{{cite news |date=October 1, 2006 |title=Kenya Crumel and Byron Hurt |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/fashion/weddings/01crumel.html?ex=1317355200&en=e848c6b44c5458f3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss |accessdate=March 7, 2008 |work=The New York Times}}
Filmography
- Moving Memories: The Black Senior Video Yearbook
- I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America
- Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
- Barack & Curtis: Manhood, Power, & Respect
- Soul Food Junkies
References
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External links
- [http://www.bhurt.com/ Official website]
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- [https://www.youtube.com/user/byronhurt/ Byron Hurt on YouTube]
- [http://itvs.org/films/soul-food-junkies "Soul Food Junkies"] (2013)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120211061514/http://www.bhurt.com/barackandcurtis.php "Barack & Curtis: Manhood, Power, & Respect"] (2008)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120801140356/http://www.bhurt.com/beyondBeatsAndRhymes.php "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes"] (2006)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121117012108/http://www.bhurt.com/iAmAMan.php "I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America"] (1998)
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Category:American documentary film directors
Category:American documentary film producers
Category:Documentary films about hip-hop music and musicians
Category:Writers from Plainfield, New Jersey
Category:Film directors from New Jersey
Category:Film producers from New Jersey
Category:African-American film directors
Category:21st-century African-American people
Category:20th-century African-American people
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