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Daughters of the dust
- Title
- Daughters of the dust / directed by Julie Dash.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Kino International [distributor], ©1992.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | Sc Visual VRA-1172 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (113 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- "Daughters of the Dust" is a 1991 independent film written, directed, and produced by Julie Dash and is the first feature film directed by an African-American woman distributed theatrically in the United States. Set in 1902 on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina it tells the story of three generations of Gullah women as they prepare to migrate to the North on the mainland.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Note
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991.
- Credits (note)
- Screenwriter, Julie Dash ; producer, Julie Dash ; executive producer, Lindsay Law ; cinematographer, A. Jaffa Fielder ; film editors, Amy Carey, Joseph Burton ; a Geechee Girls productions.
- Performer (note)
- Cora Lee Day, Barbara-O, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Tommy Hicks, Kaycee Moore, Alva Rogers, Adisa Anderson, Geraldine Dunston, Vertamae Grosvenor.
- System Details (note)
- VHS format.
- Call Number
- Sc Visual VRA-1172
- OCLC
- 28657300
- Title
- Daughters of the dust / directed by Julie Dash.
- Imprint
- New York, N.Y. : Kino International [distributor], ©1992.
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- video
- Type of Carrier
- videocassette
- Cast
- Cora Lee Day, Barbara-O, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Tommy Hicks, Kaycee Moore, Alva Rogers, Adisa Anderson, Geraldine Dunston, Vertamae Grosvenor.
- Credits
- Screenwriter, Julie Dash ; producer, Julie Dash ; executive producer, Lindsay Law ; cinematographer, A. Jaffa Fielder ; film editors, Amy Carey, Joseph Burton ; a Geechee Girls productions.
- System Details
- VHS format.
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- Added Author
- Dash, Julie, film director.Day, Cora Lee, actor.Barbara-O, actor.Bruce, Cheryl Lynn, actor.Hicks, Tommy, actor.Moore, Kaycee, actor.Rogers, Alva, actor.Anderson, Adisa, actor.Dunston, Geraldine, actor.Barnes, John, 1949- composer.Jafa, Arthur, cinematographer.Geechee Girls Productions, Inc., publisher.Kino International Corporation.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Visual VRA-1172