Louise Archambault Greaves
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Nov 4, 2026
Liani GreavesGUEST
This is by default, though.
Liani GreavesGUEST
This re-entering the film business is really about my grandfather passing away in 2014 and my grandmother, Louise Greaves.
Liani GreavesGUEST
was the person that had been running William Gries' production.
Liani GreavesGUEST
So all of the, you know, our films are still, you know, the films are still at Criterion and still distributed around at various schools and that kind of thing.
Michelle MartinCORRESPONDENT
So Leoni, how did you all finally bring this film to fruition so that we can all experience it?
Liani GreavesGUEST
Well, my, my grandmother had gotten a, a grant to restore the footage, so her, in- initially Louise Archambault Greaves, my grandmother, um, was sort of working to, um, re- restore all 6...
Liani GreavesGUEST
There were 60,000 feet of film that were, that was in storage, and she was working to have that restored and then make it available, um, via a public archive, a public facing archive that people could study from and learn from.
Liani GreavesGUEST
So that was initially what she was working towards.
Liani GreavesGUEST
So up till the time of his death, that's what he was working on, was this film.
Liani GreavesGUEST
And when he, he passed away in 2014, around 20, uh, '21 or so, my grandmother, Louise Archambault Greaves, uh, got a, a grant from the Ford Foundation in order to restore the footage.
Liani GreavesGUEST
And there, there's 60,000 feet of film that was shot for the, for the film.
Liani GreavesGUEST
And, uh, so they started restoring that footage in, in 2021 Um, and then when she passed away in 2023, um, we sort of, uh, her, really her dying, uh, wish was that what she was wanted for us to do was to make this, um, an archive that would be publicly available for everyone.
Matt CareyHOST
Oscar contender.
Matt CareyHOST
It is based on, uh, a project created by William Greaves and also Louise Archambault Greaves, again in August of 1972, gathering the surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance.
John RidleyHOST
Yeah.
Matt CareyHOST
And then much, much later, decades later, completed by David Greaves, who was William Greaves' son, and by Liliana Greaves, who is William's granddaughter, daughter of David.