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Pearl Bowser is an author, filmmaker, archivist and cultural programmer. Born in Harlem in 1931, she was the youngest of seven children, with five older brothers. She is the director and founder of African Diaspora Images, a collection of historical and contemporary films, audiotapes, and memorabilia documenting black film history. She was the co-director of the film Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies (1994). She wrote Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences (2000). The book received the 2001 Theater Library Association Award, and the top prize in the 2001 Kranszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award for the best book in the Culture & History Books

Her production credits include Mississippi Triangle (1984), Namibia Independence Now (1986) and Stories About Us (1988).

Writing Himself in to History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films and His Audiences by Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence received the 2001 Theater Library Association Award for an outstanding contribution to the literature of recorded performance. Out of 250 entries from 10 countries, Writing Himself in to History was also awarded the top prize in the 2001 Kranszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award for the best book in the Culture & History Books category.

Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines and Charles Musser are the editors and curators of the catalogue and reference work, Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era, published by Indiana University press and Giornate Del Cinema Muto September 2001. The catalogue and program (seven restored Black silent films) premiered in Italy along with the documentary MIDNIGHT RAMBLE: OSCAR MICHEAUX AND THE STORY OF RACE MOVIES. Pearl Bowser was awarded The Jean Mitry Award, at the 2001 Giornate Del Cinema Muto Film festival for her in the rediscovery of Oscar Micheaux.