Julie Dash
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''Daughters of the Dust'' is a fictionalized telling of her father's Gullah family who lived off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia in 1902. Maintaining their strong ties to African culture, traditions, and language, the Peazant family ponders the meaning of their planned migration to the U.S. mainland. The film features black women's stories, striking visuals shot on location and a non-linear narrative. Dash has written two books on ''Daughters of the Dust''—a "making of" history co-written with Toni Cade Bambara and bell hooks, and a sequel, set 20 years after the film's story. ''Daughters of the Dust'' continues to have a widespread cultural impact today, as it 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. Continuing her work in television, Dash has directed episodes of several TV series, namely ''Our Kind of People, Women of the Movement,'' and ''Reasonable Doubt'', throughout 2021 and 2022.
At the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, it was announced Dash's next major project will be a biopic of civil rights activist Angela Davis, to be produced by Lionsgate.
As of 2017, along with working in television, Dash was named a Diana King Endowed Professor in the Department of Art & Visual Culture at Spelman College. At Spelman, Dash is assisting to create a documentary filmmaking major. Dash has expressed that she is able to use her "mechanical imagination" in her classes, by focusing on aspects of film like frame composition and lighting. Using editing software like Premiere Pro in classes, she said in an interview that she does "miss having filmstrips around [her] neck".
Dash is also a member of the Directors Guild of America, as she has been a member since 1996. Provided by Wikipedia