Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth Screening
Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth
Film Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Pratibha Parmar
Tuesday 16 June 2026
17:15 (BST)
Regent Street Cinema, 307 Regent St., London W1B 2HW
Registration for University of Westminster Attendees
Registration for Non-University of Westminster Attendees
Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth is a feature documentary film which tells the compelling story of an extraordinary woman’s journey from her birth in a paper-thin shack in cotton fields of Putnam County, Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the 20th Century. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple, which has been transformed from a novel, to a Hollywood movie and latterly to a successful Broadway musical. This universal story of triumph against all odds is not that different from Walker’s own story. Born in 1944, eighth child of sharecroppers, her early life unfolded in the midst of violent racism and poverty during some of the most turbulent years of profound social and political changes in North American history. Alice Walker’s inspiring journey is also a story of a country and a people at the fault line of historical changes. Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth offers audiences a penetrating look at the life and art of an artist, a self-confessed renegade and human rights activist. In 2010, Yoko Ono honored Walker with the LennonOno Peace Award, for her ongoing humanitarian work.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with film maker and University of Westminster Doctoral Researcher Pratibha Parmar.
Pratibha Parmar’s films and writings have shaped the politics of feminist, queer, and diasporic visual cultures for over four decades. From experimental shorts to activist documentaries and feature-length works, Parmar’s cinematic language operates as an act of visual justice. Her films are a site of narrative transformation, where memory, activism, and artistic expression converge to resist erasure and imagine new futures. One of her first videos, Sari Red, lives in the permanent collection at MOMA in NYC and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. My Name Is Andrea (2022) featuring Oscar nominated actors Ashley Judd and Andrea Riseborough premiered at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival . Two of her films were included in the groundbreaking exhibition, Women in Revolt at Tate Britain (2024-2025) Pratibha is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA London) and Sming Sming Books (U.S.) published, Our Eyes as Commonly Tender: Visual Justice in the Filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar edited by Nydia Swaby & Pratibha Parmar in 2025.