Julie Dash

Known for DirectingBorn 1952-10-22 (age 73)Long Island City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Hollywood Black

The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash

Queen Sugar

A Different Image

Funny Valentines

Love Song

These Amazing Shadows

The Rosa Parks Story

Sisters in Cinema

Incognito

My Brother's Wedding

This Changes Everything

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Daughters of the Dust

Diary of an African Nun

Four Women

Illusions

Subway Stories

Wanda Sykes: Legacy

Praise House

Women: Stories of Passion

Homegoing

Seeking: Mapping Our Gullah Geechee Story

Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl

Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA

Standing at the Scratch Line

Relatives

Breaths - Sweet Honey in the Rock