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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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
