Julie Dash

Directing·Oct 22, 1952·Long Island City, New York, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
Wanda Sykes: Legacy2026 · Director	Director
HHomeGoing2025 · Director	Director
SSeeking: Mapping Our Gullah Geechee Story2023 · Director	Director
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power2022 · Self	Self
This Changes Everything2019 · Self	Self
TTravel Notes of a Geechee Girl2017 · Director	Director
Standing at the Scratch Line2016 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA2016 · Herslef	Herslef
These Amazing Shadows2011 · Self	Self
SSisters in Cinema2003 · Self	Self
The Rosa Parks Story2002 · Director	Director
Love Song2000 · Director	Director
Incognito1999 · Director	Director
Funny Valentines1999 · Director	Director
Subway Stories1997 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
TThe Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash1992 · Herself	Herself
Daughters of the Dust1991 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Praise House1991 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Relatives1989 · Director	Director
BBreaths - Sweet Honey in the Rock1988 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Illusions1982 · Producer, Director, Writer	Producer, Director, Writer
Diary of an African Nun1977 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Four Women1975 · Director	Director