Daughters of the Dust
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| Daughters of the Dust | |
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| Directed by | Julie Dash |
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| Produced by | Lindsay Law Julie Dash Arthur Jafa Steven Jones |
| Written by | Julie Dash |
| Starring | Cora Lee Day Barbara O Alva Rogers Trula Hoosier Umar Abdurrahamn Adisa Anderson Kaycee Moore |
| Music by | John Barnes |
| Cinematography | Arthur Jafa |
| Distributed by | Kino International |
| Release date(s) |  Jan 1991 (Sundance Film Festival) Sep 10, 1991 (Toronto Film Festival) |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
Daughters of the Dust is a 1991 independent film written and directed by Julie Dash. It tells the story of three generations of Gullah women at the turn of the 20th century and focuses on the family's migration from the Sea Islands to the American mainland.
Featuring an unusual narrative device, the film is told by an unborn child. The movie gained critical praise, for both its rich language and use of song, and for its use of imagery.
The film features Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbara-O, Turla Hoosier, Vertamae Grosvenor, and Kaycee Moore. It was filmed on St. Helena Island in South Carolina.
In 2004, Daughters of the Dust was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Daughters of the Dust is also a novel written by Julie Dash, published by Plume Books, a division of Penguin USA, in February 1999.
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