Byron Hurt Biography

Byron Hurt is an award-winning documentary filmmaker published writer anti-sexist activist and lecturer. He is also the former host of the Emmy-nominated television show Reel Works with Byron Hurt. For more than 20 years Hurt has been using his craft his voice and his writings to broaden and deepen how people think about gender violence race music visual media and food justice. As an activist Byron has served as a gender violence prevention educator. The former Northeastern University football quarterback was also a founding member of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program the leading college-based rape and domestic violence prevention initiative for college and professional athletics. Hurt also served as an Associate Director of the first gender violence prevention program in the United States Marine Corps.
Hurt began his professional film career with I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America. His second feature length film Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (BBR) premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was later broadcast nationally on the Emmy award-winning PBS series Independent Lens (drawing more than 1.3 million viewers). Since then it has screened at over 150 film festivals worldwide and has endured as a catalyst for discussion about Hip-Hop culture. In 2010 MSNBC's TheGriot.com named Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes one of the Top 10 most important black films of the decade.

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