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Ava Marie DuVernay ( / ˌdjuːvərˈneɪ /; [ 1] born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Award, a BAFTA Film Award, and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee for an Academy Award and Golden Globe.
Ava DuVernay. 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.
Mar 8, 2024 · Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is a director known for 'Selma,' '13th' and 'A Wrinkle in Time.' She is the first African American female director to receive a Golden Globe nomination and have a film ...
5 days ago · Ava DuVernay is best known for her films and TV shows that explore experiences of African Americans, including Jim Crow-era racism, the civil rights movement, racial inequities of mass incarceration, and the history of hip-hop music.
Jan 22, 2024 · The US director speaks about her hard-hitting new film exploring how prejudice has thrived around the world – and why she struggles with questions about its brutal scenes.
Jan 20, 2024 · F or filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who made Selma, 13th, and When They See Us, the journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s watershed 2020 book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (recommended to her repeatedly...
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.
Jan 19, 2024 · Origin: Directed by Ava DuVernay. With Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash, Emily Yancy. The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
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.
Jun 2, 2024 · DuVernay, 51, is building something bigger — an institution, a community, a future for underrepresented voices — as she climbs the ranks of Hollywood’s A-list auteurs.