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* 22.10. 1952, Queens, New York, USA

Education:     CCNY; AFI; UCLA

Independent African-American filmmaker whose first short, DIARY OF AN AFRICAN
NUN (1977), was adapted from a short story by Alice Walker. DIARY was followed
by FOUR WOMEN (1978), a "choreopoem" based on the Nina Simone song of the
same title, and ILLUSIONS (1982), about a black woman executive passing for white
in 1940s Hollywood. 

After almost six years of fundraising, Dash completed her first feature, DAUGHTERS
OF THE DUST (1991). Set at the turn of the century, the film is an impressionistic
portrait of an African-American family—descendants of West African slaves—just as
they are about to give up their insular customs and unique "Gullah" language to
travel north to the newly industrialized land of "milk and honey." DAUGHTERS was
the first feature-length film by an American-born black female filmmaker to be
released commercially in the United States.

Filmografie
1975   Four Women          director
1977   Diary of an African Nun director
1982   Illusions     director 

1991   Daughters of the Dust   producer, director, screenwriter

1991   Praise House         director
1999   Funny Valentines) (TV)
1999   INcognito (TV)
2000   Love Song (TV)
2002   The Rosa Parks Story  (TV)
2004   Brothers of the Borderland
2007   Making Angels