Julie Dash

Quick Facts

Full Name	Julie Dash
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Oct 22, 1952(1952-10-22)
Age	72
Birthplace	Long Island City
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Libra

Julie Dash Biography

Julie Dash is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on October 22, 1952 in Long Island City, New York, United States. Dash was born the 22nd of October 22nd, 1952, on the 22nd of October 1952 in Queens, New York, to Rhudine Henderson and Charles Edward Dash. The family lived in Queensbridge Housing Project. Queensbridge Housing Project in Long Island City, Queens. She attended school in 1969 in the Studio Museum of Harlem. In her undergraduate years she was studying psychology until she was admitted to the film school located at the Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts located at the City Colleges of New York, CCNY. The year 1974 was the time she received her bachelor of Arts degree in Film Production. While a student, Dash created her script to make a document written by the New York Urban Coalition, named Working Models of Success.

She was the director of Working Models of Success (1976) followed by the next year, she produced Four Women (1975), an ephemeral dance film that was based on a tune from Nina Simone. It was awarded the Gold Medal for Women in Film at the year 1978 at Miami International Film Festival. While an undergraduate student at UCLA she earned the MFA from the department of Film and Television Production. She was the director of in the movie Diary of an African Nun (1977). It was screened in the Los Angeles Film Exposition, it won the Director’s Guild Award for a Student Film.

She wrote and directed the short film Illusions (34 minutes), which explores racial and sexual discrimination in Hollywood and American society. Released in 1982, it was her first to earn more widespread success and attention. Set in 1942 in the fictional National Studios, it follows a black woman executive, Mignon Duprée, who has “passed” for white to achieve her position. Also featured is Ester Jeeter, a black woman who dubs the singing voice in musicals for a white Hollywood star. They work in an industry based on creating images and alternative realities. The film explores Mignon’s dilemma, Ester’s struggle to get roles as an actress and singer rather than dub for others, and the uses of cinema in wartime: three illusions in conflict with reality.

Illusions received the 1985 Black American Cinema Society Award and the Black Filmmaker Foundation’s Jury Prize in 1989 as best film of the decade. Kevin Thomas of the LA Times described it as “a gripping critique of the power of the movies to shape perception,” while exploring the illusions created by Hollywood, as well as the illusion of racial identity. The success of this film and other shorts enabled Dash to move to feature films.

The short film she directed in 1975 Four Women is based on the ballad “Four Women” by Nina Simone. In the song there are four women depicted (all by dancing Linda Martina Young): Aunt Sarah who is an escaped slavery victim, Saffronia as a woman of mixed races, Sweet Thing, prostitute and Peaches as a symbol of black women who have overcome gender-specific and racial-based forms of oppression. Stereotypes about black women are addressed directly and the audience is asked to confront their own prejudices and prejudices.

Julie Dash Net Worth

Julie Dash is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Julie Dash 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Julie Ethel Dash (born October 22nd 1952) is an American film producer, writer, and director. Dash has earned her MFA in 1985 from UCLA Film School. UCLA Film School and is one of the students and filmmakers that emerged from an era called the L.A. Rebellion. After having written and directed a number of short films the film Daughters of the Dust became the first film of its length written by an African-American female receive a general theatrical release within the United States.

Dash began writing an idea in the year 1975. It was an inspiration for her dad’s Gullah family history and her immigrant parents of her home in the Sea Islands of Georgia. The screenplay would later be called Daughters of the Dust, that was put into production when she was granted $800,000 of financing through PBS at the end of 1988. The film, which was set in 1902, centers around three generations Gullah women from the Peazant family living on St. Helena Island off the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina. Innovative in the use of Gullah dialog and interwoven storylines in the predominantly female characters the film focuses on matriarchal and ancestral story narratives and the story of slaves who formerly arrived on the island and established an autonomous community on the island. Screenplays were written using the Gullah dialect spoken by the island settlers , with no subtitles, which creates an experience that is akin to a full immersion in the language.

From 1978 to 1980, Dash worked as member of the Classifications and Ratings Administrations for the Motion Picture Association of America. She had a special assignment screening at the Cannes International Film Festival to review a screening of short films in the Marché du Cinema.

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Actress and executive producer Angela Bassett asked Dash to direct the CBS biopic The Rosa Parks Story in 2002. The film follows Parks and her husband Raymond (Peter Francis James) as they deal with the issues of segregation, Jim Crow laws and second-class status in 1950s Alabama, leading up to Parks’ refusing to relinquish her seat on a city bus, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Rosa Parks Story won several awards, including the NAACP Image Award for Best Television Movie. Dash was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in the 55th Annual Directors Guild Awards—the first African-American woman nominated in the category of “Primetime Movies Made for Television”.

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Despite the critical acclaim, Dash wasn’t able to get the financing to release another feature film, going on to work in television. Daughters of the Dust would continue to gain accolades for more than two decades. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2004 as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” Its visuals would influence Beyoncé’s acclaimed 2016 video album Lemonade, featuring young women on the beach, dressed in white gowns as in the movie, and gathering in front of an island cabin. On its 25th anniversary, the Cohen Media Group restored and distributed Daughters of the Dust for theatrical release, beginning at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival. Other screenings in celebration of the Daughters of the Dust 25th anniversary included Honolulu Museum of Art, AFI Silver Theater, and ARRAY @ The Broad held in Los Angeles at Theater at Ace Hotel.

What is Julie Dash known for?

Dash is known for having directed multiple episodes of the award-winning drama series, Queen Sugar, Season 2 , created and produced by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey, for OWN Television. She also hosted The Golden Years, a series for Turner Classic Movies.

Is Julie Dash married?

Arthur Jafa

How old is Julie Dash today?

69 years (October 22, 1952)

What is the movie Daughters of the Dust about?

At the dawn of the 20th century, a family in the Gullah community of coastal South Carolina — former West African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions — suffers a generational split. Young Haagar (Kaycee Moore) wants to move to the mainland away from tradition-bound matriarch Nana (Cora Lee Day). Former prostitute Yellow Mary (Barbara-O) gets a cold shoulder when she returns to the island with her female lover, especially from her sister Viola (Cheryl Lynn Bruce).

What was the L.A. Rebellion film movement?

The L.A. Rebellion film movement, sometimes referred to as the “Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers”, or the UCLA Rebellion, refers to the new generation of young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at the UCLA Film School in the late-1960s to the late-1980s and have created a black cinema that …