Editing Julie Dash (section)

==Early life and education==
Dash was born on October 22, 1952, in [[Queens, New York]], to Rhudine Henderson and Charles Edward Dash.<ref name="Julie Dash's Biography">{{Cite web |title=Julie Dash's Biography |url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/julie-dash-41 |access-date=2019-03-22 |website=The HistoryMakers |language=en}}</ref> She graduated from Jamaica High School then, went on to receive a B.A. in film production from the [[City College of New York]] in 1974.<ref name="Julie Dash's Biography" /> She was raised in the [[Queensbridge Houses|Queensbridge Housing Project]] in Long Island City, Queens.<ref>{{Cite news |title=In the Old Neighborhood With: Julie Dash; Home Is Where the Imagination Took Root |first=Felicia R. |last=Lee |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/03/movies/in-the-old-neighborhood-with-julie-dash-home-is-where-the-imagination-took-root.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 3, 1997 |access-date=February 28, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Buckley">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/movies/julie-dash-daughters-of-the-dust.html|title=Julie Dash Made a Movie. Then Hollywood Shut Her Out.|last=Buckley|first=Cara|date=2016-11-18|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-22|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She studied in 1969 at the [[Studio Museum in Harlem]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Martin |first=M |date=Winter 2010 |title="I Do Exist" From "Black Insurgent" to Negotiating the Hollywood Divide--A Conversation with Julie Dash. |journal=Cinema Journal|volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.1353/cj.0.0186 }}</ref> As an undergraduate, she studied psychology until she was accepted into the film school at the Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts at City Colleges of New York, CCNY. In 1974, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Production. As a student, Dash wrote the script for a documentary for the New York Urban Coalition, titled ''Working Models of Success''.<ref name="Julie Dash's Biography"/>

After graduating from CCNY, she moved to Los Angeles for graduate studies. She completed a two-year Conservatory Fellowship in Producing/Writing at [[AFI Conservatory]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Julie Dash's Biography"/> There she studied under filmmakers, including [[Ján Kadár]], [[William Friedkin]], and [[Slavko Vorkapich]]. She attended graduate school at the UCLA Film School and became one of a new generation of African and African-American filmmakers known as the "Black insurgents" or [[L.A. Rebellion]].<ref name="LAR">[http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/la-rebellion/2011/10/07/daughters-dust-1991 "Daughters of the Dust"], LA Rebellion, blog at UCLA</ref><ref name="Washington-Post">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060100494.html|title=From L.A. Hotbed, Black Filmmakers' Creativity Flowered |first=Ann |last=Hornaday|date=2007-06-03|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=2011-10-02|quote=In 1967, after studying electrical engineering at Los Angeles Community College, Burnett arrived at UCLA to study film. For the next 10 years, UCLA students would develop a fecund, cosmopolitan and politically engaged movement that came to be unofficially known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers.}}</ref>

She directed ''Working Models of Success'' (1976),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pjqOM04aGJ8C&q=Working+Models+of+Success+%281976&pg=PA112|title=The Women's Companion to International Film|last1=Kuhn|first1=Annette|last2=Radstone|first2=Susannah|date=1990|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520088795|language=en}}</ref> and the next year, produced ''Four Women'' (1975), a short dance film based on a song by [[Nina Simone]].<ref name="ReferenceA" /> It won a gold medal for Women in Film in the 1978 [[Miami International Film Festival]].<ref name="Tasker">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v0SITBLPJEAC&q=Gold+Medal+for+Women+in+Film+in+the+1978+Miami+International+Film+Festival+four+women&pg=PA138|title=Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers|author-link1=Yvonne Tasker|last=Tasker|first=Yvonne|date=2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780415189743|language=en}}</ref> As a graduate student at UCLA, she received an MFA in Film and Television Production. She directed the film ''Diary of an African Nun'' (1977). Screened at the Los Angeles Film Exposition, it earned a [[Directors Guild of America Award|Directors Guild Award]] for a Student Film.<ref name="voices.cla.umn.edu">[http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/dashJulie.php Voices: "Julie Dash"], University of Minnesota, 5 August 2005.</ref>