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28.09.2020 / 05:19

Ava DuVernay, her company honored by MacDowell artist colony

NEW YORK – Filmmaker Ava DuVernay will be honored next month by MacDowell, which is presenting its inaugural Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award to her media company and arts collective ARRAY.The award is named for the co-founder of MacDowell, the century-old artist residency in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein and many others have been visiting fellows. DuVernay, known for such acclaimed movies as “Selma” and “13th," founded ARRAY in 2012 as a way of amplifying the work of women and people of color.

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24.10.2020 / 17:14

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"Put on a Face Shield!": TV's Top Showrunners Share Lessons Learned From Safe Sets Amid Pandemic

After months of vacant sets, scripted television is finally getting back into the swing of things —though the swing now means keeping your distance from Sterling K. Brown, lest you wearing a face shield.

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Ava DuVernay on Changing the Narrative Around Police and the Power of 'Fearing Less' (Exclusive)

killing of George Floyd, and are available to stream for free online, while, which the director says “serves [as] a snapshot of the destruction that these systems actually have on real people,” is available on Netflix — and is part of the platform’s curated collection of content in support of Black Lives Matter. “I’m really pleased that people are finding it again,” she says of the Emmy-winning series.Meanwhile, DuVernay is using her platform and the renewed interest in these projects to affect change in the way stories about law enforcement are told moving forward.

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11.06.2020 / 17:17

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Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay and More Call for Urgent Reform: "Our Country Is in a Moment of Reckoning"

Oprah Winfrey continued to have an open conversation with black artists and activists on Wednesday aimed at determining how America can help eradicate systemic inequality and racism. Winfrey's two-night conversation, called "Where Do We Go From Here?", featuring director Ava DuVernay, former U.S.

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Filmmaker Ava DuVernay elected to the Academy’s board of governors

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is among six people elected to the Academy’s board of governors for the first time.

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Ava DuVernay joins the film academy's Board of Governors

LOS ANGELES – Filmmaker Ava DuVernay has been elected to the film academy’s Board of Governors for the first time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its new members Wednesday, which include the “Selma” filmmaker, “A Star is Born” producer Lynette Howell Taylor and casting director Debra Zane.

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10.06.2020 / 18:03

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Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay, Stacey Abrams Call for Systemic Change Amid Events "That Demand Action"

"We find ourselves on a precipice, on a tipping point," Oprah Winfrey said as she opened a conversation with black artists and activists on Tuesday aimed at determining how America can funnel the rage and protests of recent weeks into action to eradicate systemic inequality and racism. Following the May 25 killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who pleaded for air as a Minnesota police officer kneeled on his neck, as well as of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and ensuing protests nationwide, Winfrey's two-night conversation, called "Where Do We Go From Here?", featured director Ava DuVernay, former U.S.

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Protests outside Academy HQ after David Oyelowo calls out ‘Selma’ Oscar snub

revealed that Oscar voters were angered by the cast wearing T-shirts that said “I Can’t Breathe” to the film’s Los Angeles premiere in protest of the murder of Eric Garner. Director Ava DuVernay confirmed the story on Twitter.“Members of the Academy called in to the studio and our producers saying, ‘How dare they do that? Why are they stirring s–-?’ and ‘We are not going to vote for that film, because we do not think it is their place to be doing that,’” Oyelowo told Screen Daily’s Screen Talk.Actress Aunjanue Ellis, Milauna Jackson, Tanayi Seabrook and Stephanie Lacey orchestrated the gathering to provide a space for willing performers to sing, read poetry, dance, speak and express themselves.

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Ava DuVernay backs David Oyelowo’s claims Academy snubbed Selma over Eric Garner protest

which has sparked protests against police treatment of black people around the world.Following this, actor Oyelowo, who played Martin Luther King Jr in Selma, told Screen Daily that following the cast’s show of support for Garner, Academy members called the studio saying they would not vote for the film at the upcoming Oscars.He said: ‘I remember at the premiere of Selma us wearing I Can’t Breathe T-shirts in protest.

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Ava DuVernay, Viola Davis, Lee Daniels, more salute stylist who died of coronavirus

Ava DuVernay, Tyler Perry, Viola Davis, Lee Daniels and many more industry luminaries today paid tribute to Charles Gregory Ross after the Emmy-nominated hairstylist lost his battle with the coronavirus yesterday.

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Former prosecutor sues Netflix over Central Park 5 series

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein has sued Netflix and film director Ava DuVernay over her portrayal in the streaming service's miniseries about the Central Park Five case, which sent five black and Latino teenagers to prison for a crime they were later absolved of committing.

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