Cypher
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Cypher (in Development)
JULIE DASH
A young encryption specialist working as a Game Designer is targeted by the NSA as an enemy combatant, suddenly she’s on the run for her life, not knowing why, or that she holds the keys to protecting global privacy rights.
Cypher is a high speed, suspense drama with a brand new flavor. Cypher is about a generation born wired — jacked into search engines, seeking connections through social networking, risking everything for love, music, new media, and the promise of a better world online, even if it's bootleg download.
Cypher explodes upon an urban landscape, crisscrossing the African diaspora where cyphers in music (street rhyming verses) encounter mathematical cyphers (encryption) in computer codes; where Afro-Futurist, performance, and Hip Hop artists are divining new technologies inside coffee houses and cyber-cafes linking the globe.
Cypher drills down into the Civil Rights Movement of the 21st century, civil liberties in the digital world: our privacy, and freedom of expression. Cypher champions all social activists who are intent upon keeping the Internet free from corporate and government control. Cypher is one young woman’s story about the origins of a community of Hackers we have come to know only as Anonymous.
About Julie Dash
In 1991 filmmaker Julie Dash broke through racial and gender boundaries with her Sundance award-winning film (Best Cinematography) Daughters of the Dust, and she became the first African American woman to have a wide theatrical release of her feature film. In 2004, The Library of Congress placed Daughters of the Dust in the National Film Registry where it joins a select group of American films preserved and protected as national treasures by the Librarian of Congress.
Dash has written and directed for CBS, BET, ENCORE STARZ, SHOWTIME, MTV Movies, HBO, and episodes of Queen Sugar for OWN Television. She directed the NAACP Image Award winning, Emmy and DGA nominated, The Rosa Parks Story, Incognito, Funny Valentines, Love Song, and Subway Stories.
She earned her MFA in Film & Television Production at UCLA; she was a Producing and Writing Conservatory Fellow at AFI; and received her BA in Film Production from CCNY. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA), Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) and is represented by, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Los Angeles, CA.
