Julie Dash

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 LA Rebellion The LA Rebellion refers to the first African and AfricanAmerican students who studied film at UCLA After she had written and directed several shorts her 1991 feature Daughters of the Dust became the first fulllength film directed by an AfricanAmerican 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