Films with: Dash, Julie

Daughters of the dust

Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the dawn of the 20th century.

DVD 1223

Illusions

Story takes place in 1942 and is about Mignon Dupree, a black woman studio executive who appears to be white, and Ester Jeeter, a black woman who is the singing voice for a white Hollywood star. The film follows the struggles of the women as well as the use of film in wartime Hollywood.

DVD 7272

L.A. rebellion creating a new black cinema : DVD anthology 1971-2006 /

"The group of Black filmmakers that have come to be known as the L.A. Rebellion created a watershed body of work that strives to perform the revolutionary act of humanizing Black people on screen. The filmmakers in this group met as students in film school at the University of California, Los Angeles, between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s."--Booklet. This collection contains this broad representative sampling of their projects, as were exhibited in the film exhibition.

DVD 12514