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Julie Dash
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 f…
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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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2026
Wanda Sykes: Legacy
Movie Director
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2025
HomeGoing
Movie Director
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2023
Seeking: Mapping Our Gullah Geechee Story
Movie Director
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2022
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Movie Self
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2019
This Changes Everything
Movie Self
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2017
Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
Movie Director
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2016
Queen Sugar
TV show Director
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2016
Standing at the Scratch Line
Movie Director
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2016
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
Movie Herslef
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2011
These Amazing Shadows
Movie Self
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2003
Sisters in Cinema
Movie Self
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2002
The Rosa Parks Story
Movie Director
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2000
Love Song
Movie Director
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1999
Incognito
Movie Director
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1999
Funny Valentines
Movie Director
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1997
Subway Stories
Movie Director
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1996
Women: Stories of Passion
TV show Writer
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1992
The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
Movie Herself
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1991
Daughters of the Dust
Movie Director
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1991
Praise House
Movie Director
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1989
Relatives
Movie Director
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1988
Breaths - Sweet Honey in the Rock
Movie Director
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1985
My Brother's Wedding
Movie First Assistant Director
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1982
Illusions
Movie Producer
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1982
A Different Image
Movie Continuity
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Director
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1977
Diary of an African Nun
Movie Director
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1975
Four Women
Movie Director
