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Sep 1, 2023 · Ava DuVernay’s industry colleagues—like Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, and Jeffrey Katzenberg—kept asking her about Caste. They all assumed DuVernay would have been one of the first to ...
Ava Duvernay makes art that looks squarely at society and takes it to task. “Mass incarceration is important to me. The fracturing of the black family structure is important to me. The trauma of ...
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- Jesmyn Ward,Photograph by Art Streiber
Jan 19, 2024 · When you sit down to interview Ava DuVernay, you quickly realize how she rose to the top of her profession in 12 short years. Before DuVernay became an Oscar-nominated director with Selma, before ...
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- Eli Glasner
Jan 18, 2024 · Ava DuVernay is smiling, but there’s a steeliness to her words. The director, writer and producer is no stranger to carving her own path. With “Origin,” her latest film, she was forced to ...
Ava DuVernay. Writer: Queen Sugar. A director, producer, writer, marketer and film distributor, Ava DuVernay made her feature film debut with the documentary This is the Life (2008), a history on hip hop movement that flourished in Los Angeles in the 1990's.
Jan 29, 2024 · Ava DuVernay felt a sense of urgency around sharing the message of ‘Origin’ and brought the conversation straight to the Washington, DC, and those tasked with creating the nation’s laws.
Jun 21, 2021 · ARRAY: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay By her early thirties, Ava DuVernay was already a successful entrepreneur, having founded her own film publicity agency in Los Angeles. But after years of watching ...
