Auteur: Oscar Micheaux

Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951) was an African-American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by Black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race film, and has been described as « the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century ». He produced both silent films and sound films.