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Jan 20, 2024 · January 20, 2024 6:00 AM EST. 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 ...
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 ...
2M Followers, 7,296 Following, 1,222 Posts - Ava DuVernay (@ava) on Instagram: "“Walls turned sideways are bridges." - Angela Davis"
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 ...
Sep 6, 2023 · Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ Wows Venice With Nine-Minute Standing Ovation. DuVernay's powerful biographical drama is the first movie by a Black U.S. female director to be included in the ...
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 ...
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 connected. All of the ...
