(born 1952) Independent African American director-producer, Dash has faced many problems in funding that have limited her output. Nonetheless, her lyrical vision, synthesizing poetry and music, underpins master works like Four Women (1978), while Illusions (1982) explores a black woman passing for white in 1940s Hollywood. Daughters of the Dust (1992), a stunning prelude to the African American great migration, set on the Gullah coast, was the first feature-length general release film by an African American woman.

However, even after its critical success, Dash could not finance another feature; she has worked on musical shorts and a project on Zora Neale Hurston.