Julie Dash

Julie Dash was born on Oct 22, 1952 in USA. Julie Dash's big-screen debut came with Illusions directed by Julie Dash in 1982. Julie Dash is known for The Rosa Parks Story directed by Julie Dash, Angela Bassett stars as Rosa Louise McCauley Parks and Peter Francis James as Raymond Parks. Julie Dash has got 4 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Julie Dash achieved is Sundance Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Julie Dash plays is The Rosa Parks Story which will be released on Feb 24, 2002.

Thirty-one years ago, filmmaker Julie Dash broke racial and gender boundaries with her Sundance award-winning film (Best Cinematography) Daughters of the Dust. She became the first African American woman to have a wide theatrical release of her feature film. The Library of Congress placed Daughters of the Dust and her UCLA MFA senior thesis Illusions in the National Film Registry. These two films join a select group of American films preserved and protected as national treasures by the Librarian of Congress. Dash recently designed two rooms for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and VOGUE, In American: An Anthology of Fashion, featured at the NYC Met Gala 2022.