Losing Ground (1982 film)
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| Directed by | Kathleen Collins |
| Written by | Kathleen Collins |
| Produced by | Eleanor Charles |
| Starring | Seret Scott Bill Gunn Duane Jones |
| Cinematography | Ronald K. Gray |
| Edited by | Ronald K. Gray Kathleen Collins |
| Music by | Michael Minard |
| Distributed by | Milestone Film & Video |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $125,000 |
Losing Ground is a semiautobiographical 1982 American drama film written and directed by Kathleen Collins, and starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn and Duane Jones. It is the first feature-length drama directed by an African-American woman since the 1920s and won First Prize at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival in Portugal.
In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".