| LC control no. | n 92073665 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3554.A823 |
| Personal name heading | Dash, Julie |
| Variant(s) | Fielder, Julie Dash |
| See also | Founder of: Geechee Girls Productions, Inc. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1952-10-23 |
| Place of birth | Long Island City (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Fiction Motion picture authorship Motion pictures--Production and direction Motion pictures--Editing Novels |
| Affiliation | City University of New York. City College Center for Advanced Film Studies (American Film Institute) Motion Picture Association of America Cannes Film Festival Geechee Girls Productions, Inc. American Film Institute University of California, Los Angeles |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Novelists Screenwriters Motion picture producers and directors Motion picture editors |
| Found in | Her Daughters of the dust, c1991: CIP t.p. (Julie Dash) pub. info. (film producer, lives in Atlanta, Ga.) IMDb, Apr. 15, 2008 (Julie Dash; b. Oct. 22, 1952, Queens, N.Y.; director, writer, editor, producer) My brother's wedding [MP] 1983: credits (1st assistant director, Julie Dash Fielder) 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) 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) OpenCorporates database, viewed June 16, 2022 (Geechee Girls Productions, Inc.; established December 9, 1988; currently disolved; location: Encino, Calif.; officer: Julie Dash) <https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ga/J823322> |
| Associated language | eng |
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