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===Television=== In 1997, Dash wrote and directed an episode of ''[[Women: Stories of Passion]]'' for the Showtime Cable Network, as well as ''Sax Cantor Riff,'' one of HBO's ''Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground'' for producers [[Jonathan Demme]] and [[Rosie Perez]].<ref>Torriano Berry, S. and Berry, Venise T., ''Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema'', Rowman & Littlefield, May 7, 2015, pg. 123, {{ISBN|1442247029}}.</ref> Dash directed the television film ''[[Funny Valentines]]'' in 1999, an account of a well-to-do black woman's retreat from a troubled New York marriage to the [[Deep South]] and her childhood past.<ref>[http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/tv/reviews/306/ John Leonard, "'Funny Valentines' and 'Deep in My Heart'"], ''[[New York (magazine)|New York Magazine]]''</ref> [[Alfre Woodard]], and executive producer on the film, asked Dash to get involved.<ref name="Dash 4β12">{{Cite journal|last=Dash|first=Julie|date=2007-01-01|title=Making Movies That Matter: A Conversation with Julie Dash|jstor=27761685|journal=Black Camera|volume=22|issue=1|pages=4β12}}</ref> Dash wrote the screenplays and directed the television movies ''Incognito'' (1999), a romantic thriller made by BET Arabesque Films; and ''Love Song'' (2000), an MTV movie starring the [[Grammy Award|Grammy]] award-winning singer [[Monica (entertainer)|Monica]].<ref name="voices.cla.umn.edu" /> Actress and [[executive producer]] [[Angela Bassett]] asked Dash to direct the biopic ''[[The Rosa Parks Story]]'' in 2002.<ref name="Dash 4β12"/> The film follows Parks and her husband Raymond ([[Peter Francis James]]) as they deal with the issues of [[Racial segregation|segregation]], [[Jim Crow laws]] and second-class status in 1950s Alabama, leading up to Parks' refusing to relinquish her seat on a [[Transit bus|city bus]], leading to the [[Montgomery bus boycott]].<ref>[https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/films/rosa-parks-story "L.A. Rebellion - ''The Rosa Parks Story''.] UCLA Film & Television Archive. Retrieved on October 13, 2017.</ref> ''The Rosa Parks Story'' won several awards, including the [[NAACP Image Awards|NAACP Image Award]] for Best Television Movie.<ref name="Breznican">Breznican, Anthony. (March 8, 2003) [http://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Rosa-Parks-Story-Wins-Two-NAACP-Awards-7196861.php "'Rosa Parks Story Wins' Two NAACP Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014083345/http://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Rosa-Parks-Story-Wins-Two-NAACP-Awards-7196861.php |date=October 14, 2017 }} ''Midland Daily News''. Retrieved on October 13, 2017.</ref> Dash was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in the 55th Annual [[Directors Guild of America Award|Directors Guild Awards]]βthe first African-American woman nominated in the category of Primetime Movies Made for Television.<ref>Letort, Delphine. (Spring, 2012). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/blackcamera.3.2.31 "''The Rosa Parks Story'': The Making of a Civil Rights Icon"] ''Black Camera'' - Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 31-50. Retrieved on October 13, 2017.</ref> In 2004, Dash made ''Brothers of the Borderland'', a work commissioned by the [[National Underground Railroad Freedom Center]]. Narrated by [[Oprah Winfrey]], the film features the character of Alice, an [[Fugitive slaves in the United States|escaped slave]] whose story represents an amalgamation of historic figures. The film is shown in the [[Harriet Tubman]] theater, named for the fugitive slave woman who helped many others escape to freedom.<ref>[http://likeawhisper.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/bhm-friday-directors-julie-dash/ "BHM: Friday Directors β Julie Dash"], Professor Sussuro blog, 13 February 2009.</ref> In December 2016, Dash guest-hosted on Turner Classic Movies to discuss dozens of films on the channel. Dash joined the roster of female directors working on the second season of [[Ava DuVernay|Ava DuVernay's]] ''[[Queen Sugar]]'' on the [[Oprah Winfrey Network (U.S. TV channel)|OWN Network]] in 2017.<ref>Scott, Sydney. (May 26, 2017) [http://www.essence.com/entertainment/julie-dash-joins-second-season-queen-sugar "Julie Dash Joins The Second Season Of 'Queen Sugar'"] ''Essence''. Retrieved on October 3, 2017.</ref> She continued this work in television in 2021 and 2022 by directing several episodes of TV series airing on HULU, FOX, CBS, BET and others. These series are ''Our Kind of People, Women of the Movement,'' and ''Reasonable Doubt''.
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