
Directing
Born October 22, 1952 · Long Island City, New York, USA
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 commissioned Dash to direct Brothers of the Borderland in 2004, as an immersive film exhibit narrated by Oprah Winfrey following the path of women gaining freedom on the Underground Railroad. In 2017, Dash directed episodes of Queen Sugar on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Homegoing
2025
Seeking: Mapping Our Gullah Geechee Story
2023
Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
2017

Standing at the Scratch Line
2016

The Rosa Parks Story
2002

Love Song
2000

Incognito
1999

Funny Valentines
1999

Subway Stories
1997

Daughters of the Dust
1991

Praise House
1991

Relatives
1989
Breaths - Sweet Honey in the Rock
1988

Illusions
1982

Diary of an African Nun
1977

Four Women
1975