Dash, Julie (1952–)
Dash, Julie (1952–)
African-American director. Born Oct 22, 1952, in Long Island City, NY; studied filmmaking at City College of New York and American Film Institute.
The 1st female African-American director to have a movie distributed nationally, won acclaim for film Daughters of the Dust (1991); also novelized the film (1997); other films include Four Women (1975), Diary of an African Nun (1977), Illusions (1982), Praise House (1991) and Brothers of the Borderland (2004); for tv, directed "Funny Valentines" (1999), "Incognito" (1999), "Love Song" (2000) and "The Rosa Parks Story" (2002).
See also Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film (New Press, 1993).
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