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Since 1997, the UCLA Film & Television Archive has partnered with the Sundance Institute to preserve independent documentaries, narratives and shorts. The resulting Sundance Collection at UCLA is highlighted each year at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with special "From the Collection" screenings of key titles.
This year, "From the Collection" featured the newly-timed print of Daughters of the Dust (1991), writer-director Julie Dash's lyrical Gullah period epic that won the best cinematography award at Sundance the year of its release; the new print previously served as the opening night screening for our L.A. Rebellion series last fall.
After the Sundance screening, author-filmmaker-critic Nelson George joined Dash onstage to discuss her film. Read highlights at the Sundance blog.
The Sundance Film Festival was a big success for Dash in other ways as well. Producer Bob Crowe of the independent Canadian studio Angel Entertainment announced that Julie Dash will direct the feature film Tupelo 77, about "a group of women of various ages and races who frequent a roadside diner in small town Mississippi in the hot summer of 1977, just as Elvis Presley tragically died."
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