CONJURE WOMEN is a performance based feature film documentary that explores the artistry and philosophy of a specific group of African American female artists. Born and educated in the West, they are now using their disciplines to reclaim their "africanisms:" an intuitive experience of what could not be codified, and what their foreparents had to deny if they were to survive.

The specificity of CONJURE WOMEN is not only its artistic mandate to examine and challenge existing images and assumptions of African American culture.It is also, as director Demetria Royals says, "telling the story of African Americans in our own distinct and self-defined voices."

Funding for CONJURE WOMEN was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts. The PBS broadcast of CONJURE WOMEN is presented by The National Black Programming Consortium and WQED/Pittsburgh.