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    Julie DASH 1982 USA Fiction b/w 36min English Digi Beta
    Mignon Duprée is a mid-level producer a fictional Hollywood lot called National Studios in 1942. Few if any women of that time would have occupied a position like Mignon’s.
    Mignon is required to oversee the re-looping of a musical whose soundtrack was poorly synchronized. Mignon encountered Ester JEETER, the unsophisticated session singer, who is unconcerned of her recruitment as an invisible black vocalist to redeem an all-white film. The encounter with Ester influenced Mignon deeply. Mignon knows what history people remember will be that on the silver screen so she wants to use moving images as her weapon, to document stories that are untold by the Hollywood.

    Director

    Julie DASH

    Julie DASH was born and raised in New York City, she earned her M.F.A. in Film & Television production at UCLA. DASH is a writer, producer and director. In 1992, with her lm Daughters of the Dust, DASH became the rst African American woman to have a full-length general theatrical release in the United States. It is the most important cinematic achievements in Black Cinema in the 20th century. In 2007, DASH received the Life Time Achievement Award from the Images of Black Women Film Festival in the UK. She was also nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for her lm The Rosa Parks Story.

    Julie DASH

    1973 Working Models of Success 1975 For Women

    1977 Diary of an African Nun 1982 黑白幻音 Illusions

    1991 Praise House

    1991 塵埃的女兒 Daughters of the Dust

    1997 Grip Till it Hurts

    1997 即興地鐵爵士樂 Sax, Cantor Riff

    1999 另類情人節 Funny Valentines

    1999 隱姓埋名 Incognito

    2000 愛之頌 Love Song

    2002 人權鬥士:羅莎派克 The Rosa Parks Story 2004 Brothers of the Borderland

    Director/Julie DASH

    Screenplay/Julie DASH

    Editor/Charles BURNETT, Julie DASH

    Actor/Lonette KCKEE, Rosanne KATON, Ned BELLAMY, Jack Lundi FAUST, Lisa PHELPS,Laddy ASHLEY

    Producer/Julie DASH Cinematographer/Ahmed El MAANOUNI

    Music/Eugene BOHLMANN

    Production Company:Geechee LLC

    P.O. Box 48853, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA, rydrawong@aol.com, www.geechee.tv

    Sales Company:Women Make Movies

    462 Broadway, Suite 500WS (at Grand Street) New York, NY 10013

    Tel: 212-925-0606 , Fax: 212-925-2052, orders@wmm.com, www.wmm.com

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