The Great White Hope (film) over their marriage and Duryea's death by suicide in 1912. Set between 1910 and 1915, the story follows Jack Jefferson, patterned after real-life boxer, Jack Johnson, going on a hot streak of victories in the boxing ring as he defeats every white boxer around. Soon the press and racists announce the search for a "great white hope", a boxer who will defeat Jefferson for the heavyweight title. Meanwhile, Jefferson prepares for a few more matches, but he lets his guard down by courting the beautiful, and very white, Eleanor Bachman, and when everyone, including Jack's black "wife", discover this, the
Black & White Festival Black & White Festival The Black & White Audiovisual Festival () is a Portuguese arts festival which takes place in April. It celebrates the black & white aesthetics in film, photography and sound. It's located at Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Centro Regional da Foz – through the Escola das Artes in Oporto, Portugal. The Black & White Audiovisual Festival intends to celebrate the black and white aesthetics as a specific, peculiar and unique kind of artistic expression. The image capture in the digital technology is born with colours but the artist's intuition often urges for the black and white production.