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JULIE DASH

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About Me

MySpace Layouts MySpace Layouts MySpace Codes MySpace BackgroundsDAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, released in 1992, was the first feature film Produced, Written and Directed by an African American woman to have a theatrical release in the United States. Arthur Jafa won the Award for Best Cinematography at Sundance (1991) for his work on Daughters of the Dust. In 2004, the Library of Congress added DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST to the National Film Registry, to be preserved as a National Treasure.Julie Dash was born and raised in New York City, she's from the QB, the Queensbridge Projects; she tours nationally and internationally with her work. Since embarking upon her film career (at The Studio Museum of Harlem's film workshop) she has received numerous awards including: a Nomination from the DGA for Best Television Movie (The Rosa Parks Story), an NAACP Image Award, the AFI Maya Deren Award, the Women in Film Dorothy Arzner Award, the Oscar Micheaux Award, The Black Oscar, The Black Emmy, and Fellowship Awards that include the Rockefeller Fellowship, A Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship...O.. magazine included ..Daughters.. among its 50 Greatest Chick Flicks, and Filmmaker Magazine listed it as one of the 50 Most Important Independent Films. Newark's 25th Annul Black Film Festival honored her film as being one of the most important cinematic achievements in Black Cinema in the 20th century.A selection of Julie's films include: Brothers of the Borderland, The Rosa Parks Story, Funny Valentines, Love Song, Incognito, Praise House, Grip Til' It Hurts, Subway Stories: Sax Cantor Riff, Illusions and Diary of an African Nun which won her a Directors Guild Award for that UCLA Student Film.

My Interests

Would LOVE to see more feature films directed by: Maya Angelou, Euzhan Palecy, Gina Prince Blythewood, Kasi Lemmons, Darnell Martin, Angela Robinson, Debbie Allen, Neema Barnett, and Sanaa Hamari .

I'd like to meet:

Digital Outlaws and Analog Anomalies

Movies:

Stomp The Yard, The Lives of Others, The Pursuit of Happiness, Rize, Apocalypto, Volver, Amores perros, Kung-fu Hustle, City of God, Moulin Rouge, Idlewild, Malcolm X, Ghost In a Shell, Lummunba, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Ju-Dou, Ray, Raise The Red Lantern, One False Move, Gladiator, Killer of Sheep, Aliens, Lucia, The Day The Earth Stood Still, A Woman Under the Influence, Chung-kin Express, Domino, The Apu Trilogy, Ganja and Hess, The Year of Living Dangerously, Battle of Algiers, Sandakan 8, How Green Was My Valley, Dona Flora and Her Two Husbands, The Lone Wofe and Babycart series, The Conformist, John Huston's Moby Dick, Nothing But A Man, Stalker, Nostalghia, Maria's Lovers, Lying Lips,

Television:

Simpsons, Grey's Anatomy, Sleeper Cell, Dexter.

Books:

Shantaram, A Dead Man Speaks, Song of Solomon, Standing At the Scratch Line, Sula, The Intuitionist, Their Eyes Where Watching God, Beloved, Babel-17, The Bluest Eye, Breath Eyes Memory, The Souls of Black Folk, Ladies Detective Agency (series), Nova, Wild Seed, My Soul To Keep, Parable of the Sower, Midnight Robber, Those Who Walk in Darkness, Disappearing Acts, Gorilla My Love, In Love and in Trouble: Stories of Black Women, On Her Own Ground...

Heroes:

Rydrawong, Oprah, Soledad O'Roark, Cat Woman, Toni Morrison, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Schomberg Center for Research.