Julie Dash

Julie Ethel Dash (b. October 22, 1952, New York City, USA) is an American filmmaker, writer, and visual artist whose pioneering work reshaped representations of Black women, memory, and diaspora on screen. She emerged from the L.A. Rebellion cinema movement and became widely celebrated for her landmark feature film Daughters of the Dust (1991), the first full-length film by an African-American woman released theatrically and now preserved by the U.S. Library of Congress for its cultural, historical and aesthetic significance.