Participant’s ‘My Name is Pauli Murray’ To Premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2021

The Sundance Film Festival announced today its slate for the 2021 festival, which included Participant’s documentary My Name is Pauli Murray, directed by the Oscar-nominated filmmaking team behind RBG, Betsy West & Julie Cohen.

Told largely in Pauli’s own words, My Name is Pauli Murray is a candid recounting of that unique and extraordinary journey.Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat, a full decade before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned separate-but-equal legislation, Pauli Murray was already knee-deep fighting for social justice. A pioneering attorney, activist and dedicated memoirist, Murray shaped landmark litigation—and consciousness— around race and gender equity. As an African American youth raised in the segregated South—who was also wrestling with broader notions of gender identity—Pauli understood, intrinsically, what it was to exist beyond previously accepted categories and cultural norms. Both Pauli’s personal path and tireless advocacy foreshadowed some of the most politically consequential issues of our time.