Editing Julie Dash (section)

===''Four Women'' (1975)===
Her 1975 short film ''[[Four Women (1978 film)|Four Women]]'' is based on the ballad [[Four Women (song)|"Four Women"]] by [[Nina Simone]]. In the song, four women are portrayed (all by the dancer Linda Martina Young): Aunt Sarah, a slave, Saffronia, a mixed-race woman, Sweet Thing, a prostitute, and Peaches, as a representation of black women overcoming racial and gender-specific forms of oppression. The first character shown is Aunt Sarah who wears a long dress and represents slavery. The next character is Saffronia who wears a black dress and a black veil. She is a mixed-race woman who is the product of her mother being raped by a white man. The next character, Sweet Thing, is a prostitute. She wears a floral print dress and she is no longer covered by a veil. The last character is Peaches, who represents a black woman who has been toughened by generations of oppression. She wears cornrows, a brightly colored tube top, and matching pants. The overall message of this short is to show the different struggles that many black women are subjected to.<ref>{{cite web |title="Four Women," |url=https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2012.79.1.40.1abc. |website=National Museum of African American History and Culture}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema|last=Field|first=Allyson|publisher=University of California Press|year=2015}}</ref> Stereotypes of black women are directly addressed, asking the audience to address their own biases and stereotypes.

From 1978 to 1980, Dash worked as member of the Classifications and Ratings Administrations for the [[Motion Picture Association of America]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Duckworth|first=Margaret|title=Notable Black American Women: Book II|publisher=Gale|year=1995|isbn=9780810391772|pages=160}}</ref> She had a special assignment screening at the [[Cannes International Film Festival]] to review a screening of short films in the Marché du Cinema.{{Citation needed|date=July 2018}}