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Title Daughters of the dust / a Geechee Girls production ; produced, written, and directed by Julie Dash.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Kino on Video, [2000]
©2000

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Video  PN1995.9.N4 D38 2000    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition Deluxe ed., letterboxed version.
Description 1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
video file
System Details DVD.
Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991. Copyright date on container is 1999.
Performer Cast: Cora Lee Day, Barbara-O, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Tommy Hicks, Kaycee Moore, Alva Rogers, Adisa Anderson, Geraldine Dunston, Vertamae Grosvenor.
Credits Music composed by John Barnes ; editors, Amy Carey, Joseph Burton ; director of photography, A. Jaffa Fielder ; executive producer, Lindsay Law.
Note Special features: Audio commentary by writer/director Julie Dash; "Touching our own spirit: the making of Daughters of the Dust," a new documentary featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage; never-before-seen footage from the preliminary version of the film; isolated musical score by John Barnes; excerpt of Spencer Williams' The Blood of Jesus (1941); an interview with historian Robert Farris Thompson; deleted scenes, theatrical trailer.
Summary Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the dawn of the 20th century.
Subject African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Drama.
African Americans.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject African American women -- Sea Islands -- Drama.
African American women.
African American families -- Sea Islands -- Drama.
African American families.
African Americans.
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Dash, Julie.
Day, Cora Lee.
Barbara-O.
Bruce, Cheryl Lynn.
Hicks, Tommy.
Moore, Kaycee.
Rogers, Alva.
Anderson, Adisa.
Dunston, Geraldine.
Barnes, John, 1949-
Geechee Girls Productions, Inc.
Kino International Corporation.
Added Title Touching our own spirit: the making of Daughters of the Dust.
Standard No. 737329013328