‘Daughters of the Dust’ is coming back. The award winning film is headed to select theatres across the United States to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
The movie, set in the 1900’s is the first film to portray the Gullah Geechee culture; communities descended from enslaved Africans who settled along the coast and Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia.
It is the first feature film directed by an African-American woman to be distributed theatrically in the United States.
The film was restored by the Cohen Media Group with the help of UCLA Film & Television Archives.
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”.
