Alile Sharon Larkin

Alile Sharon Larkin

Alile Sharon Larkin is an artist-educator and award-winning independent film and video maker. Larkin was a public school teacher in Los Angeles for over 25 years. She taught at 32nd Street/USC Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School from 1993-2013. Her teaching experience ranges from pre-K to college and filmmaking is part of Larkin’s interdisciplinary curriculum. She has received 10 Video in the Classroom Awards for teacher-produced films, documenting students learning about textile arts, storytelling, yoga, jazz, women’s history, Kwanzaa and African-American dance. Her film, Your Children Come Back To You (1979), presents a child’s perspective on wealth and social inequality, and has screened throughout U.S. and Europe. A Different Image (1982), about an African-American woman contemplating self-identity, heritage and perception, received critical praise and earned her first prize from the Black American Cinema Society, won Best Production of 1981 from the Black Filmmaker Foundation, and was named runner-up for best short film at FILMEX. The screenplay of A Different Image was published in Screenplays of the African American Experience (Indiana University Press, 1991). Larkin’s critical essay, “Black Women Filmmakers Defining Ourselves,” appears in Female Spectators (Verso Editions, London). Larkin was honored to write the prologue for Charles Burnett: A Troublesome Filmmaker (Play-Doc Books, 2016). Her essay is titled: “Who Will Protect and Respect, Inspire and Nurture This Black Woman Filmmaker (For Charles and All the Brothers).” Larkin's production company Dreadlocks and the Three Bears Productions creates Afrocentric and global multimedia and arts experiences for children and families. Larkin recently resumed shooting Tie-Dye after 26 years, with a multigenerational crew including her son and granddaughter. Tie-dye features black children celebrating everyday life through global black music genres. The music is available on iTunes. Larkin hopes to complete the DVD for release in 2017.

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Alile Sharon Larkin Movies

  • 1989
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    Creating a Different Image: Portrait of Alile Sharon Larkin

    Creating a Different Image: Portrait of Alile Sharon Larkin

    1 1989 HD

    A jubilant affirmation of self-identity, Creating a Different Image is Alile Sharon Larkin in her own words defiantly declaring, "I am an artist." ...

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  • 1978
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    The Single Parent Family: Images in Black

    The Single Parent Family: Images in Black

    6 1978 HD

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  • 1979
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    Your Children Come Back to You

    Your Children Come Back to You

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    Your Children Come Back to You

    Your Children Come Back to You

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    Your Children Come Back to You

    Your Children Come Back to You

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1982
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    A Different Image

    A Different Image

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1982
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    A Different Image

    A Different Image

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1979
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    Your Children Come Back to You

    Your Children Come Back to You

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Kitchen

    The Kitchen

    6 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Kitchen

    The Kitchen

    6 1975 HD

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  • 1987
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    Miss Fluci Moses

    Miss Fluci Moses

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1991
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    Dreadlocks and the Three Big Bears

    Dreadlocks and the Three Big Bears

    1 1991 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Kitchen

    The Kitchen

    6 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Kitchen

    The Kitchen

    6 1975 HD

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