Writer, Producer, Director and Distributor of Independent FilmIndividual
Ava DuVernay is the first African American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award as a director in any feature category. Winner of multiple Emmy, BAFTA, NAACP and Peabody Awards, her feature film directorial work includes the “Selma,” “13th” and “A Wrinkle in Time,” which made her the highest-grossing Black woman director in American box office history. DuVernay is currently writing, directing and producing the narrative film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent.”
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