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Ava DuVernay was born on August 24, 1972 in Long Beach, California. As a child, DuVernay’s Aunt Denise encouraged her passion for art and creativity. Her aunt worked the night shift as a nurse so she could pursue her love for art, literature and theater during the day. She introduced DuVernay the 1961 film West Side Story, and DuVernay fell ...
Jun 21, 2021 · 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 other people make films, she ...
Jan 22, 2024 · The life of these films goes far beyond the glittery times, and that's the honour of being a filmmaker – Ava DuVernay. Oyelowo, who played Martin Luther King in DuVernay's Selma, was frozen out ...
Jan 16, 2024 · The career of singular filmmaker Ava DuVernay is one filled with firsts. After college, she cut her teeth in journalism and public relations. Picking up a camera for the first time at age 32, she made short films, a micro-budget drama, and a few documentaries before her second feature film “Middle of Nowhere” debuted at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where she became the first Black ...
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 ...
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Jul 8, 2020 · Ava DuVernay’s Fight for Change, Onscreen and Off. The award-winning film director on the role of artists in a time of widespread unrest, and how film can help hold police to account.
