Julie Dash

Born: 1962-10-22

Julie Ethel Dash (born October 22, 1952) is an American film director, writer and producer. Dash received her MFA in 1985 at the UCLA Film School and is one of the graduates and filmmakers known as the L.A. Rebellion. The L.A. Rebellion refers to the first African and African-American students who studied film at UCLA. After she had written and directed several shorts, her 1991 feature Daughters of the Dust became the first full-length film directed by an African-American woman to obtain general theatrical release in the United States. Daughters of the Dust was named one of the most significant films of the last 30 years, by IndieWire. Dash has worked in television since the late 1990s. Her television movies include Funny Valentines (1999), Incognito (1999), Love Song (2000), and The Rosa Parks Story (2002), starring Angela Bassett. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center commissioned Dash to direct Brothers of the Borderland in 2004, as an immersive film exhibit narrated by Oprah Winfrey following the path of women gaining freedom on the Underground Railroad. In 2017, Dash directed episodes of Queen Sugar on the Oprah Winfrey Network.


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This Changes Everything

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Released: 2019-06-28

An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from...

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These Amazing Shadows

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Released: 2011-01-22

Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema...

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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

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Released: 2022-10-21

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking...

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