Daughters of the Dust

This film is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Office of Arts & Culture.

A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.

The first feature film directed by an African-American woman to receive a theatrical release in the United States, Julie Dash’s feature debut was financed by PBS and later selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Universally hailed, it is considered one of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time.