
Twenty-four years ago, filmmaker Julie Dash broke through racial and gender boundaries with her Sundance award-winning film (Best Cinematography)
Daughters of the Dust, and she became the first African American woman to have a wide and general theatrical release of her feature film. In 2004, The Library of Congress placed
Daughters of the Dust in the National Film Registry where it joins a select group of American films preserved and protected as national treasures; Dash is the only African American woman with a feature film inducted into the National Film Registry. Dash has written and directed for CBS, BET, ENCORE STARZ, SHOWTIME, MTV Movies, and HBO; winning two NAACP Images Awards, and a Director’s Guild of America nomination for
The Rosa Parks Story, which Angela Bassett received an Emmy nomination for her starring role. Dash’s other films include
Incognito,
Funny Valentines,
Love Song, and
Subway Stories: Tales From the Underground. Julie Dash is the Distinguished Professor of Cinema, Television and Emerging Media (CTEMS) at Morehouse College.