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Thirty-two years ago, filmmaker Julie Dash broke racial and gender boundaries with her Sundance award-winning film (Best Cinematography) Daughters of the Dust. She became the first African American woman to have a wide theatrical release of her feature film. The Library of Congress placed Daughters of the Dust and her short film Illusions in the National Film Registry. These two films join a select group of American films preserved and protected as national treasures by the Librarian of Congress. Daughters of The Dust ranks #60 out of The 100 Greatest Films Ever Made by international film critics & the British Film Institute. Julie Dash is known for her visual investigations of issues of racial justice, diasporic identities, migration, and black women across films, videos, and museum installations. Her film Seeking: Mapping Our Gullah Geechee Story, produced by the Ummah Chroma Creatives, opened the International African American Museum in Charleston, SC, in 2023. She was awarded Joseph R. Biden’s President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for a lifelong commitment to building a stronger nation, the highest civilian honor for volunteer service in the United States. Dash designed several rooms for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and VOGUE, In American: An Anthology of Fashion, featured at the NYC Met Gala 2022. She produced and directed a promotional fashion film for VOGUE magazine online with Chloe x Halle. Her recent television episodic work includes Reasonable Doubt seasons one and two for Disney+/ Hulu, the ABC limited series Women of The Movement, Our Kind of People for FOX/Hulu, and Queen Sugar for OWN TV. Her long-form narrative films include the NAACP Image Award-winning, Emmy, DGA nominated, The Rosa Parks Story, Incognito, Funny Valentines, and Love Song. Julie Dash is a Fulbright Scholar who earned a BA in Film Studies from the City University of New York, an MFA in Screenwriting at the American Film Institute’s Center for Advanced Film Studies, and an MFA in Theater Arts (Film & Television Production) at UCLA. Julie Dash is the Diana King Endowed Professor in the Department of Art & Visual Culture at Spelman College. Directors Guild of America (DGA) Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS)