User:Sggpace/Julie Dash

Dash is also a member of the Director’s Guild of America, as she has been a member since 1996.

At Spelman College, Dash is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art and Visual Culture where she is assisting to create a documentary filmmaking major. Dash has expressed that she is able to use her “mechanical imagination” in her classes, by focusing on aspects of film like frame composition and lighting. Using editing software like Premiere Pro in classes, she said in an interview that she does “miss having filmstrips around [her] neck”.

Personal Life
Julie Dash met Arthur Jafa when she was working as the assistant director and he was working as an assistant cameraman on the film “My Brother's Wedding” in the early 1980s. After the film ended they moved in together, and in 1983 they got married. In 1984, Dash and Jafa’s daughter, named N’Zinga after a Angolan queen, was born. Jafa and Dash later on got a divorce.

Julie Dash loves to read and listen to audiobooks of Toni Morrison’s work, she even stated once that she has been “listening to Toni Morrison’s audiobooks at night to help me go to sleep”

Dash still goes to the Sea Islands where they shot Daughters of the Dust as she shared in an interview that she goes down every couple of months because her uncle lives in Charleston and a lot of her family’s buried there.