JULIE DASH: Women of the Movement and Other Untold Stories (Ep. 8)

Filmmaker and award-winning director, Julie Dash who directed the recent ABC limited series Women of the Movement based on the real-life events around Mamie Till-Mobley’s attempts to get justice for the brutal murder of her 14-year old son Emmett Till in the Jim Crow South of 1955. Mamie Till-Mobley’s activism for justice would accelerate the Civil Rights Movement. Julie Dash broke through racial and gender boundaries with her Sundance award-winning film (Best Cinematography) Daughters of the Dust (1991). She became the first African American woman to have a wide theatrical release of her feature film. The Library of Congress placed Daughters of the Dust and her UCLA Master of Fine Arts senior thesis Illusions (1982) in the National Film Registry. We talk with Julie Dash about: Her film and television work in historical drama, including Women of the Movement; the influence of Black women writers and cultural workers in her creative work; and the impact of bringing untold stories from history to the screen, particularly how we believe and remember history