Part of the George Eastman Museum/Dryden Theatre month-long focus on black female filmmakers, presented in partnership with the Rochester Association of Black Journalists and the Little Theatre’s Black Cinema Series. With "Daughters of the Dust," Julie Dash became the first African American woman to direct a feature that gained general theatrical release in the United States. The story follows the Peazants, a Gullah family, who are descendants of Central and West African enslaved people, on the Sea Islands off the…