found: Her Daughters of the dust, c1991:CIP t.p. (Julie Dash) pub. info. (film producer, lives in Atlanta, Ga.)
found: IMDb, Apr. 15, 2008(Julie Dash; b. Oct. 22, 1952, Queens, N.Y.; director, writer, editor, producer)
found: My brother's wedding [MP] 1983:credits (1st assistant director, Julie Dash Fielder)
found: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Dash, Julie; motion picture producer / director, screenwriter; novelist; born 23 October 1952 in Long Island City, New York, United States, Queensbridge Housing Projects; majored in psychology at the City College of New York but graduated in film production; moved to Los Angeles, California, gaining experience working on many film crews; became the youngest fellow ever at the Center for Advanced Film Studies; worked for the Motion Picture Association of America in Los Angeles;e attended the Cannes International Film Festival in France (1980) and cosponsored a session on several short films by black Americans; won a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1981) and began making her most acclaimed films winning prestigous awards; moved to Atlanta, Georgia (1986), where she formed Geechee Girl Productions, her own film company)
found: African American National Biography accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Dash, Julie; motion picture producer/ director, screenwriter; born 23 October 1952 in Long Island City, New York, United States, Queensbridge Housing Projects; majored in film production in the City College of New York (CCNY) (1974); awarded a fellowship to study at the American Film Institute (AFI) (1975); educated in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); became part of the L.A. School of Filmmakers; won a Director's Guild Award (1977); one of her most famous films- Illusions (1982); it earned the Jury Prize for Best Film of the Decade by the Black Filmmakers Foundation (1989); she was awarded an MFA in Motion Picture and Television Production from UCLA (1986); Daughters of the Dust- the first theatrical-release feature film produced by an African American woman (1992); the Library of Congress placed it in the National Film Registry; directed Tracy Chapman; directed The Rosa Parks Story (2002) with Angela Bassett; it was awarded at the Fifty-fifth Annual Directors Guild Award)
