The recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Charles Burnett has been described by New Yorker critic Terrence Rafferty as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director.” Burnett’s first feature film, Killer of Sheep (1977), was among the first 50 films placed in the National Film Registry for preservation by the Library of Congress. Hosted by the Film Studies program during his residency, Burnett showed some of his rarely screened films during a week-long program at the Pacific Film Archive. He also participated in classes and a symposium on his films, and met with students and faculty. The Film Studies program said of his visit, “our program, the PFA, and African American Studies were greatly enriched by Burnett’s presence among us.”