TRIBUTE TO JULIE DASH

Filmmaker and author Julie Dash combined cinematic technique honed from her graduate work at UCLA during the “LA Rebellion” movement of Black Cinema and a desire to create uniquely female African American narrative films with her personal history of rich Gullah heritage to produce the 1991 groundbreaking and internationally acclaimed Daughters of the Dust, the first feature-length film by an African American woman with theatrical release in the US. Dash has continued to produce impressive works, including The Rosa Parks Story, Incognito, Funny Valentines, Love Song, and Subway Stories. Her upcoming projects include Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, a documentary about writer- actor-griot-culinary anthropologist Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor.

DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST

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Exquisitely cinematic and profoundly imagined, Julie Dash’s lyrical story of family migration is unlike any other, establishing her as a strikingly original artist in the pantheon of American cinema. This seminal, award-winning work continues to inspire (notably, Beyoncé’s homage, Lemonade); its newly-restored digital print reveals the gorgeous visual palette. Not to be missed. US 1991, 112 min. Directed by Julie Dash

OUR TRIBUTE PROGRAM will feature an onstage conversation with Julie Dash, a clip reel of her work, a screening of DAUGHTERS OF DUST, and the presentation of the MVFF Award. Join us after the program for a celebratory reception at Green Chili Kitchen, San Rafael.