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Illusions is a 1982 film written and directed by Julie Dash. The short film depicts the life of an African American woman passing as a white woman working in the film industry during the 1940s. It calls attention to the lack of African Americans in the film industry during that era.
Aug 30, 1982 · Illusions: Directed by Julie Dash. With Lonette McKee, Rosanne Katon, Ned Bellamy, Jack Rader. An African American woman rises to prominence in a fictional movie studio in the 1940s by passing as a white woman, affording others some dignity in the business that frequently portrayed movies as an illusion of a purely "white world."
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Apr 4, 2019 · This highly-acclaimed drama by one of the leading African American women directors follows Mignon’s dilemma, Ester’s struggle and the use of cinema in wartime Hollywood: three illusions in conflict with reality.”
Mignon Duprée, a Black woman studio executive who appears to be white and Ester Jeeter, an African American woman who is the singing voice for a white Hollywood star are forced to come to grips with a society that perpetuates false images as status quo.
In Julie Dash’s radical critique of the Hollywood system, Mignon Duprée (Lonnette Mckee), a white passing Hollywood producer, strives to change the way Black people are seen in movies. Director: Julie Dash. Year: 1982. Genre: Drama.
