Julie Dash

Director

Born: October 22, 1952 (age 73)
From: 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…

Filmography (23)

Wanda Sykes: Legacy (2026)
Director
HomeGoing
HomeGoing (2025)
Director
Seeking: Mapping Our Gullah Geechee Story
Seeking: Mapping Our Gullah Geechee Story (2023)
Director
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)
Self
This Changes Everything (2019)
Self
Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl (2017)
Director
Standing at the Scratch Line (2016)
Director
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA (2016)
Herslef
These Amazing Shadows (2011)
Self
Sisters in Cinema
Sisters in Cinema (2003)
Self
The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
Director
Love Song (2000)
Director
Incognito (1999)
Director
Funny Valentines (1999)
Director
Subway Stories (1997)
Director
The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash (1992)
Herself
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Director
Praise House (1991)
Director
Relatives (1989)
Director
Breaths - Sweet Honey in the Rock
Breaths - Sweet Honey in the Rock (1988)
Director
Illusions (1982)
Director
Diary of an African Nun (1977)
Director
Four Women (1975)
Director