Julie Dash

Wanda Sykes returns to her alma mater with a fearlessly funny takedown of everything from the state of the world to the cultural clash over washcloths. (rottentomatoes.com)

"Our deepest memories live at the shoreline...where the Atlantic ocean meets solid ground" (imdb)

The story of the civil rights heroine whose refusal to obey racial bus segregation was just one of her acts in her fight for justice.

A privileged, black college student with a fiance falls in love with a white musician she meets on her 21st birthday.

A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin. (imdb)

A young socialite hires a bodyguard to protect her, when an ex-convict begins stalking her.

Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastion of these mores in America. Set in 1902. (imdb)

PRAISE HOUSE shows the emotional prison so many people live in, even as it celebrates the persistence of belief and creativity, and the splendid legacies African Americans have preserved against all odds. (google.com)

A woman in a Hollywood dubbing studio struggles with race and preconceptions.

A Ugandan nun wrestles with an emptiness that she shouldn't be feeling in her life choice. (google.com)

An experimental choreographed poem, made within the LA Rebellion movement of film students at UCLA. (imdb)