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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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 woman to win the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition.
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 ...
