American writer and film director Julie Dash (1952) is one of the UCLA Film graduates known as the L.A. Rebellion: the first African-American and African students at UCLA. Her 1991 feature Daughters of the Dust was the first full-length film directed by an African-American woman to obtain general theatrical release in the United States and was named one of the most significant films of the last 30 years by IndieWire. Dash has worked in television since the late 1990s, with films such as Funny Valentines (1999), Incognito (1999), Love Song (2000), and The Rosa Parks Story (2002).
