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Julie Dash

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Julie Dash
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These Amazing Shadows (2011)
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Thirty-one years ago, filmmaker Julie Dash broke racial and gender boundaries with her Sundance award-winning film (Best Cinematography) Daughters of the Dust. She became the first African American woman to have a wide theatrical release of her feature film. The Library of Congress placed Daughters of the Dust and her UCLA MFA senior thesis Illusions in the National Film Registry. These two films join a select group of American films preserved and protected as national treasures by the Librarian of Congress. Dash recently designed two rooms for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and VOGUE, In American: An Anthology of Fashion, featured at the NYC Met Gala 2022.
BornOctober 22, 1952
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Director Julie Dash in frony of an image from her film "Daughters of the Dust"
Julie Dash
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Julie Dash in Daughters of the Dust (1991)
 Director Julie Dash attends the Roger Ebert Memorial Tribute at Chicago Theatre on April 11, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Julie Dash 2016 TIFF
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Julie Dash and Trevante Rhodes

Known for

Reasonable Doubt (2022)
Reasonable Doubt
6.2
TV Series
  • Director
Women of the Movement (2022)
Women of the Movement
7.5
TV Series
  • Director
Our Kind of People (2021)
Our Kind of People
5.9
TV Series
  • Director
Queen Sugar (2016)
Queen Sugar
7.8
TV Series
  • Director

Credits

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Director

  • Reasonable Doubt (2022)
    Reasonable Doubt
  • Women of the Movement (2022)
    Women of the Movement
  • Our Kind of People (2021)
    Our Kind of People
  • Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky (2021)
    Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
    • (directed by)
  • Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
  • Queen Sugar (2016)
    Queen Sugar
  • Standing at the Scratch Line (2016)
    Standing at the Scratch Line
  • Brothers of the Borderland
  • Angela Bassett in The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
    The Rosa Parks Story
  • Love Song (2000)
    Love Song
  • Incognito (1999)
    Incognito
  • Funny Valentines (1999)
    Funny Valentines
  • Tony! Toni! Toné!: Thinking of You
  • SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997)
    SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground
    • (segment Sax Cantor Riff)
  • Maria Conchita Alonso in Women: Stories of Passion (1996)
    Women: Stories of Passion

Writer

  • Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky (2021)
    Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
  • Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
  • Standing at the Scratch Line (2016)
    Standing at the Scratch Line
  • SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997)
    SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground
    • (segment Sax Cantor Riff)
  • Maria Conchita Alonso in Women: Stories of Passion (1996)
    Women: Stories of Passion
  • Daughters of the Dust (1991)
    Daughters of the Dust
  • Rosanne Katon in Illusions (1982)
    Illusions

Producer

  • Bride Price (2019)
    Bride Price
  • Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
  • Standing at the Scratch Line (2016)
    Standing at the Scratch Line
  • American Masters (1985)
    American Masters
  • Daughters of the Dust (1991)
    Daughters of the Dust
    • (produced by)
  • Rosanne Katon in Illusions (1982)
    Illusions
  • Diary of an African Nun (1977)
    Diary of an African Nun

Videos3

Julie Dash - Directing Reel
Demo Reel 1:54
Julie Dash - Directing Reel
Unsung Black Heroes of Film History
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Unsung Black Heroes of Film History
These Amazing Shadows
Trailer 1:44
These Amazing Shadows

Personal details

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    • October 22, 1952
    • Queens, New York, USA
    • Arthur Jafa1983 - ? (divorced, 1 child)
  • Daughters of the Dust, a novel.
  • Publicity listings
    • 2 Print Biographies
    • 1 Article

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    She has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Illusions (1982) and Daughters of the Dust (1991).
  • Quotes
    [on being invited to join AMPAS, after her original application, 25 years ago, was ignored] I'm hopeful. There are still a lot of people waiting at the gate, but things are moving forward. [Oct. 2016]

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