Four Women
Julie Dash
Dancer Linda Martina Young embodies the four female characters in Nina Simone’s ballad Four Women.
Julie Dash
Julie Dash was born and raised in New York City. With her debut Daughters of the Dust, she became the first African American woman to have a full-length general theatrical release in the United States. In 1999, the twenty-fifth Annual Newark Black Film Festival honored this film as being one of the most important cinematic achievements in Black Cinema in the 20th century. With The Rosa Parks Story, she became the first African American woman nominated in the category of »Primetime Movies Made for Television« at The Directors Guild of America.
Films by Julie Dash (Selection)
Brothers of the Borderland 2004 | The Rosa Parks Story 2002 | Funny Valentine 1999 | Incognito 1999 | Praise House 1999 | Daughters of the Dust 1991 | Diary of an African Nun 1977 | Four Women 1975
