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Julie Dash

Highest Rated: 94% Daughters of the Dust (1991)

Lowest Rated: 70% Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)

Birthday: Oct 22, 1952

Birthplace: Queens, New York, USA

Renowned for being almost too ahead of her time, filmmaker Julie Dash was perhaps best known for directing the landmark 1992 period drama "Daughters of the Dust" (1992). Born in New York in 1952, Dash earned her undergraduate degree from the Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts at City College of New York, later procuring an MFA from UCLA Film School. Among her first major projects was writing and directing the short "Working Models of Success" (1973) for the New York Urban Coalition. She would then direct short films like "Four Women" (1975) and "Illusions" (1982) in addition to commercials and PSAs. When Dash finally broke through with her feature film debut, "Daughters of the Dust," she became the first African-American woman to have a full-length general theatrical release in the United States. The movie's impeccably curated visuals, intense but subtle themes, and well paced momentum made it a major phenomenon, and yet the film failed to garner Dash new feature film opportunities, as major and even minor studios remained dumbfounded about how to market films made by and about African-American women. She would spend the next several years either making films without the aid of the studio system, like 1999's "Funny Valentines" (1999), or directing movies for TV, like "Incognito" (BET, 1999) and "Love Song" (MTV, 2000). In 2017, Dash returned to the big screen, directing the documentary "Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl" (2017).

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Highest rated movies

94% 66% Daughters of the Dust
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70% 88% Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Watchlist
World Beat
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Sisters in Cinema
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Funny Valentines
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Standing at the Scratch Line
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Diary of an African Nun
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61% Subway Stories
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75% Love Song
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78% The Rosa Parks Story
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
70% 88% Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Self $28.8K 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Standing at the Scratch Line Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sisters in Cinema Self - 2003
No Score Yet 78% The Rosa Parks Story Director - 2002
No Score Yet 75% Love Song Director - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Funny Valentines Director - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Incognito Director - 1999
No Score Yet 61% Subway Stories Director,
Writer
- 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet World Beat Self - 1993
94% 66% Daughters of the Dust Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$41.0K 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Illusions Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer,
Film Editing
- 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Diary of an African Nun Director - 1977

TV

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100% 76% Reasonable Doubt Director 2024