Daughters of the Dust

Daughters of the Dust
Daughters of the Dust

DVD cover
Directed by Julie Dash
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) United States Jan 1991 (Sundance Film Festival)
Canada September 10, 1991 (Toronto Film Festival)
Country USA
Language English

Daughters of the Dust is a 1991 independent film written, directed and produced 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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