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- Biography: Julie Dash (born October 22, 1952 in Long Island City, Queens, New York) is a United States filmmaker. Her Daughters of the Dust in 1991 was the first full-length film with general theatrical release in the United States by an African American woman. Daughters of the Dust was included in... Read more
Filmography
- Making Angels (2008)
- The Scarapist (2008)
- Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (2008)
- Brothers of the Borderland (2004)
- The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
- Love Song (2000)
- Incognito (1999)
- Funny Valentines (1999)
- SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997)
- Alma's Rainbow (1994)
- Daughters of the Dust (1991)
- My Brother's Wedding (1983)
News
Daughters of the Dust Directed by Julie Dash: Untamed Women Examined
associatedcontent.com –
2007-09-18
In the Julie Dash film "Daughters of the Dust", the Peazant family is faced with a major dilemma; should they leave the life they know on the home they have always known of the coast of North Carolina or head... ... Full Article
Film
villagevoice.com –
2002-07-30
But Krim is no mere necrologist. In the past 25 years, Kino (whose staff now numbers 17) has helped launch the U.S. careers of vanguard foreign auteurs Wong Kar-wai and Aki Kaurismäki ; championed landmark American independent films like Julie... ... Full Article
Film
villagevoice.com –
1998-10-06
Now entering its fourth decade, Third World Newsreel has gone from a giddily utopian agitprop image bank documenting the antiwar and Civil Rights struggles of the '60s to the celluloid-and-tape ground zero of late-20th-century identity politics. ... Full Article
Subway Stories - Cronache metropolitane
cinemah.com –
1998-07-23
Tit. or .: Subway Stories - Tales From the Underground ; regia/e : Bob Balaban, Patricia Benoit, Julie Dash, Jonathan Demme, Ted Demme, Abel Ferrara, Alison Maclean, Craig McKay, Lucas Platt, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld; sceneggiatura/e : Adam Brooks, Julie Dash,... ... Full Article
There is also talk of remaking some other popular blaxploitation movies including Get Christie Love, Superfly, The Mack, and Cleopatra Jones [click here for blackfilm.com's essay on blaxploitation] . BET has teamed up with Arabesque, a line of African-American romance ... Full Article
Independent African-American filmmaker whose first short, "Diary of an African Nun" (1977), was adapted from a short story by Alice Walker. "Four Women" (1978) is a "choreopoem" based on the Nina Simone song of the same title and "Illusions" (1982)... ... Full Article