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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.
Ava DuVernay. Writer: Queen Sugar. 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 an American director, producer, and writer whose film and television projects explore the African American experience. Among her best-known works are the film Selma (2014), the documentary 13th (2016), and the miniseries When They See Us (2019).
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...
Jan 22, 2024 · Violence gets into a dangerous space when it's rendered in cinema as spectacle that is divorced from dignity – Ava DuVernay.
She was the first African American woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival, be nominated for a Best Director Golden Globe, direct a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, and direct a film with a budget over $100 million. Her work has made her the highest grossing Black woman director in American box office history.
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.
Ava DuVernay’s Visionary Filmmaking Is Reshaping Hollywood. Her eye for American history puts her in the vanguard. Her passion for justice makes her a hero. Jesmyn Ward, Photograph by Art ...
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...
Sep 6, 2023 · Ava DuVernay made history Wednesday as the first African American woman to direct a feature in competition at the Venice Film Festival. The trailblazing director debuted her picture “Origin” at...
