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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 a Primetime Emmy Award, two NAACP Image Award, a BAFTA Film Award, and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee of an Academy Award and Golden Globe.
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 ...
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.
Jun 9, 2024 · 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...
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.
Jan 5, 2024 · Ava DuVernay helmed an epic film on social hierarchies that spans centuries and continents to show how the killing of Trayvon Martin, Indian castes and the Holocaust are all...
Jan 16, 2024 · He's the person who has edited hundreds of thousands of hours of racist violent footage for “13th.”. He edited the early episodes of “Queen Sugar,” full of the nuances of Black family life. And the ways in which “Origin” skirts along the contours of different cultures and continents and communities.
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.
