Movies: Julie Dash
- 2019
This Changes Everything (2019)
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An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry....
- 2011
These Amazing Shadows (2011)
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Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself....
- 1991
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
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In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North....
- 1997
Subway Stories (1997)
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An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss....
- 1999
Funny Valentines (1999)
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A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin....
- 2022
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)
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Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020....
- 2002
The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
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A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama....
- 1991
Praise House (1991)
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“Draw or Die” is the divine imperative received by the painter, Hannah, who is being nurtured by her Grandmother, but controlled by her pragmatic mother. When her Granny spirit shouts this command to Hannah, she closes a celebration of personal visio...
- 1999
Incognito (1999)
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A young socialite hires a bodyguard to protect her when an ex-convict begins stalking her....
- 1992
The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash (1992)
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An interview with the filmmaker Julie Dash about her film training, vision and struggle to bring Daughters of the Dust to the American movie screen. Includes clips of Illusions and Diary of an African Nun....
- 1975
Four Women (1975)
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An imaginatively choreographed dance interpretation of the ballad by Nina Simone explores four common stereotypes of Black women....
- 2003
Sisters in Cinema (2003)
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Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors....
- 1982
Illusions (1982)
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A woman in a Hollywood dubbing studio struggles with race and preconceptions....
- 2000
Love Song (2000)
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A privileged, black college student with a fiance falls in love with a white musician she meets on her 21st birthday....
- 1989
Relatives (1989)
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Ishmael Huston-Jones physically carries his mother, Pauline Jones, into the improvisational dance space. While she dyes eggs and speaks about family history, he improvises a rhythmic dance-counterpoint to her speech....
- 1983
My Brother's Wedding (1983)
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A young African-American man, living in Los Angeles without direction in his life, reluctantly agrees to be the best man for his brother, an upwardly mobile lawyer....
- 1977
The Diary of an African Nun (1977)
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An African nun is consumed by fear and doubt about her decision to take the solemn vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Her anguish intensifies night after night as she lies on a hard bed in her small room at the convent and listens to the rhythm...
- 2017
Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl (2017)
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A feature length documentary about Vertamae Smart Grosvenor, a world-renowned author, performer, and chef from rural South Carolina who has led a remarkably unique and complex life....
- 2016
Standing at the Scratch Line (2016)
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Recounts the impact of migrants on the African Methodist Episcopal church. Philadelphia’s Mother Bethel AME, the nation’s oldest African-American church, served as a local community partner, as well as Mother Emmanuel Church in Charleston, SC, the si...
- 2023
Seeking: Mapping Our Gullah Geechee Story (2023)
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A non-linear coming-of-age story about Gullah Geechee children who set off into the dark of night to prove their spiritual maturity by embarking upon solo journeys in the sea island woods for self-reflection and discovery....