Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorPoet, playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, civil rights activist and educator Kathleen Collins will receive the inaugural Icon Tribute posthumously during the Gotham Awards Ceremony on Nov.
29. Nina Lorez Collins will accept the award on behalf of her mother.“Kathleen Collins lived an inspirational life itself worthy of a film.
She fought for civil rights, then fought for the opportunity to tell powerful stories about people of color,” said Jeffrey Sharp, executive director of the Gotham Film and Media Institute.