A Keynote Conversation with Julie Dash and Jacqueline Stewart

Julie Dash and Jacqueline Stewart in Conversation
Friday, November 19, 2021  |  9:00am (Pacific)

A keynote conversation with filmmaker Julie Dash and Jacqueline Stewart about the importance of representation in storytelling, and of preserving and providing access to African American film history and images.

Julie Dash has been one of the few directors honored twice by the National Film Registry with Illusions and Daughters of the Dust and is the recipient of the New York Film Critics Circle Special Award, the Women & Hollywood Trailblazer Award, and the New York Women in Film & Television MUSE Award. Her film and television work continues to be a vital source of inspiration and influence on many working in the field today including Ava Duvernay and Beyonce. She is currently working as one of the directors on Women of the Movement, an anthology series chronicling the civil rights movement as told by the women behind it; as well as Our Kind of People; a film for Charleston’s new International African American Museum; and an audiobook, “Daughters of the Dust,” a novel. Dash is also the Diana King Endowed Professor in Film and Filmmaking, Television and Related Media at Spelman College.

Jacqueline Stewart is the Chief Artistic and Programming Officer of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a TCM host, and a recent McArthur Fellowship awardee. She is the Chair of the National Film Preservation Board. the director of the South Side Home Movie Project, and a former Board Member of AMIA.  Stewart is the author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity and William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission, and coeditor of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, a landmark study of the first generation of film school trained Black filmmakers out of UCLA, including Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, and Haile Gerima. Stewart’s writings have appeared Critical Inquiry, Film Quarterly, Film History and The Moving Image. She is also a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College and Director of Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago.