Daughters of the Dust

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Daughters of the Dust
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Directed by	Julie Dash
Produced by	Lindsay Law Julie Dash Arthur Jafa Steven Jones
Written by	Julie Dash
Starring	Cora Lee Day Barbara O Alva Rogers Trula Hoosier Umar Abdurrahamn Adisa Anderson Kaycee Moore
Music by	John Barnes
Cinematography	Arthur Jafa
Distributed by	Kino Video
Release date(s)	Jan 1991 (Sundance Film Festival) Sep 10, 1991 (Toronto Film Festival)
Country	USA
Language	English
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Daughters of the Dust is a 1991 independent film written and directed by Julie Dash. It tells the story of three generations of Gullah women at the turn of the 20th century and focuses on the family's migration from the Sea Islands to the American mainland.

Featuring an unusual narrative device, the film is told by an unborn child. The movie gained critical praise, for both its rich language and use of song, and for its use of imagery. Another unusual feature of the film is that the much of the dialogue is spoken in the Gullah language.

The film features Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbara-O, Turla Hoosier Vertamae Grosvenor, and Kaycee Moore. It was filmed on St. Helena Island in South Carolina.

In 2004, Daughters of the Dust was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".