Dash on Daughters’ mosquito-infested set located on Hunting Island in 1989
Since her first film, Working Models of Success, was released in 1973, Dash has herself been a working model of success, directing 13 other films and being involved in numerous projects, including music videos.
Stills from Daughters of the Dust illustrate the cinematic beauty that led to it winning the 1991 Sundance Film Festival Best Cinematography Award
For Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, Julie Dash is traveling far and wide to interview luminaries, such as actor Danny Glover
For Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, Julie Dash is traveling far and wide to interview luminaries, such as actor Danny Glover and jazz artist Hugh Masekela (pictured here at center with producer Rachel Watanabe and Dash).
The Geechee Girl herself, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, (center) with Kristen Hanna, Dr. Helen Hanna, and Dash at the Avery Research Center in 2012.
Smart-Grosvenor’s bestselling Vibration Cooking or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl was first released in 1970; 41 years later, University of Georgia Press published the fourth edition with a new preface by the author.
The film’s promotional poster includes a photograph of Smart-Grosvenor in Paris at the Beat Hotel, circa 1958.
