- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- October 22, 1952
- Place of Birth
- Long Island City, New York, USA
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 L.A. Rebellion. The L.A. Rebellion refers to the first African and African-American students who studied film at UCLA. After she had written and directed several shorts, her 1991 feature Daughters of the Dust became the first full-length film directed by an African-American 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 commi…
Filmography
movieWanda Sykes: Legacy
2026 · Director
HomeGoing
movieHomeGoing
2025 · Director
tvHollywood Black
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Seeking: Mapping Our Gullah Geechee Story
movieSeeking: Mapping Our Gullah Geechee Story
2023 · Director
movieBrainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
2022 · Self
movieThis Changes Everything
2019 · Self
Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
movieTravel Notes of a Geechee Girl
2017 · Director
tvQueen Sugar
2016 · Director
movieStanding at the Scratch Line
2016 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieSpirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
2016 · Herslef
movieThese Amazing Shadows
2011 · Self
Sisters in Cinema
movieSisters in Cinema
2003 · Self
movieThe Rosa Parks Story
2002 · Director
movieLove Song
2000 · Director
movieIncognito
1999 · Director
movieFunny Valentines
1999 · Director
movieSubway Stories
1997 · Director, Writer
tvWomen: Stories of Passion
1996 · Writer
The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
movieThe Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
1992 · Herself
movieDaughters of the Dust
1991 · Director, Writer, Producer
moviePraise House
1991 · Director, Writer
movieRelatives
1989 · Director
Breaths - Sweet Honey in the Rock
movieBreaths - Sweet Honey in the Rock
1988 · Director, Producer
movieMy Brother's Wedding
1983 · Assistant Director
movieIllusions
1982 · Producer, Director, Writer, Editor
movieA Different Image
1982 · Continuity
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982 · Director, Writer
movieDiary of an African Nun
1977 · Director, Editor, Producer
movieFour Women
1975 · Director, Cinematography