Ava DuVernay Says Her New Movie 'Origin' Is 'a Door Opened' for Black Filmmakers at International Festivals "This is something that we are often told — you cannot play international film ...

Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay are two of the creative leaders honored for Variety’s 2022 Power of Women presented by Lifetime. For more, click here. Oprah Winfrey has spent most of her career ...

Acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay once helmed a film about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—and now she can add a similar honorific to her name. Esteemed Ivy ...

Director Ava DuVernay has disrupted Hollywood by telling and supporting stories that most likely would never get the big screen treatment. “Origin” fits that mold. DuVernay takes on the task ...

Ava DuVernay, the creator of "Queen Sugar," laid down a pioneering directive for her Oprah Winfrey-backed TV series: To hire only female directors, in an industry where women, particularly women ...

How Kenturah Davis Crafted Ava DuVernay’s Portrait for the 2022 Portrait of a Nation Awards (Exclusive) The piece, which was revealed today by the National Portrait Gallery alongside six other ...

Ava DuVernay is speed-walking through her offices at 5 p.m. on Good Friday, wearing a construction hat and sweatpants and pointing out a loose board to a staffer. “I worked so hard on this ...

Ava DuVernay is speaking out after she was mistaken as the director of Queen and Slim and Harriet. By Alexia Fernández. Published on November 26, 2019 01:07PM EST. Credit : Frazer Harrison/Getty.

Ava DuVernay and Michael Starrbury's last collaboration brought us the harrowing, 16-time Emmy-nominated series When They See Us. Now, the two artists are working on another powerful story — the ...

Ava DuVernay‘s Origin, the first film by an African American woman to play in Competition at the Venice Film Festival, will have a Gala screening at Roy Thomson Hall at TIFF on Monday, September 11.

Ava DuVernay is known for flipping the script. And on Tuesday, the incredibly talented director delivered one of the most delicious plot-twists of the week. DuVernay will be the first Black woman ...

"This is something that we are often told — you cannot play international film festivals, no one will come," Ava DuVernay told reporters at a Venice Film Festival press conference ...