Hidden Figures: Julie Dash (Patreon)

Hidden Figures: Julie Dash

'Julie Dash was born on October 22, 1952 in Queens, New York where her father, a Gullah from the Sea Islands of Georgia, raised her. She began her study of film in 1969 at the Studio Museum of Harlem, and as an undergraduate, she studied psychology until accepted into the film school at the Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts at CCNY. In 1974, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles for graduate studies, attending the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the American Film Institute (AFI). She attended graduate school at the UCLA Film School and became one of a new generation of African and African-American filmmakers known as the "black insurgents" or L.A. Rebellion. Her work began to take on a new direction after film school, and Dash said in an interview with the Village Voice: "I stopped making documentaries after discovering Toni Morrison... Alice Walker. I wondered, why can't we see movies like this? I realized I needed to learn how to make narrative movies." Her film 'Illusions' was her first to earn more widespread success and attention; critically acclaimed, it received the 1985 Black American Cinema Society Award and the Black Filmmaker Foundation's Jury Prize in 1989 as best film of the decade. The success of this film and other shorts enabled Dash to move to feature films. She'd worked on 'Daughters of the Dust' since 1975, finally getting financing in 1988 from PBS so that she could proceed. It is the first feature film by an African-American woman to be distributed in the United States in theatrical release. The movie gained critical praise, for both its rich language and use of song, and for its lyrical visual imagery and cinematography. In 2004, 'Daughters of the Dust' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ~ via Wikipedia #JulieDash #HiddenFigures ****************** Follow me on social media! Twitter: @seren_sensei Instagram: @sensei_aishitemasu Tumblr: http://sensei-aishitemasu.tumblr.com Snapchat: sssseren GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/tc5wh7q Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seren_sensei ****************** Did you know I wrote a book? ☺️ 'So, About That... A Year of Contemporary Essays on Race and Pop Culture' Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/About-That-Contemporary-Essays-Culture-ebook/dp/B013V0CHK6 Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013V0CHK6 Digital download (e-book): https://gumroad.com/l/IkUa ****************** Links: http://juliedash.tv 'Julie Dash Made a Movie. Then Hollywood Shut Her Out:' https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/movies/julie-dash-daughters-of-the-dust.html 'The Return of Julie Dash’s Historic “Daughters of the Dust:”' http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-return-of-julie-dashs-historic-daughters-of-the-dust '“There’s a Movement Here”: Pioneering Director Julie Dash on the LA Rebellion, Black Lives Matter, and the New Generation of African-American Women in Film:' http://flavorwire.com/543984/theres-a-movement-here-pioneering-director-julie-dash-on-the-la-rebellion-black-lives-matter-and-the-new-generation-of-african-american-women-in-film '25 years later, writer-director Julie Dash looks back on the seminal 'Daughters of the Dust:' http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-daughters-of-the-dust-julie-dash-20161114-story.html 'Twenty-five years later, filmmaker Julie Dash reflects on Daughters of the Dust:' https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2016/11/25/twenty-five-years-later-filmmaker-julia-dash-reflects-on-daughters-of-the-dust 'How Beyoncé’s Lemonade Helped Bring a Groundbreaking Film Back to Theaters:' http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/08/daughters-of-the-dust-exclusive ''Daughters of the Dust': Why the Movie That Inspired 'Lemonade' Is Back:' http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/why-we-need-indie-movie-daughters-of-the-dust-right-now-w450955 'Director Julie Dash on Daughters of the Dust, Beyoncé, and Why We Need Film Now More Than Ever:' http://www.vogue.com/article/daughters-of-the-dust-julie-dash-interview Julie Dash (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Dash Julie Dash - UCLA Film and Television Archive: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/julie-dash 'Hundreds rally for pregnant mom shot by Seattle police:' https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/06/20/seattle-officer-before-shooting-pregnant-mom-dont-have-taser/103036286/ 'Sofi Coppola's Whitewashed New Movie, The Beguiled:' http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2017/06/sofia_coppola_s_whitewashed_new_movie_the_beguiled.html?wpsrc=sp_all_article_storypromo 'LOST IN TRANSLATION IS AN INSUFFERABLE, RACIST MESS — WHY WOULD WE EXPECT THE BEGUILED TO BE ANY DIFFERENT?' http://www.mtv.com/news/3021638/lost-in-translation-is-an-insufferable-racist-mess-why-would-we-expect-the-beguiled-to-be-any-different/