The “Monsoon Wedding” and “Mississippi Masala” director spoke about some of the positive changes she’s seen over the last 18 months during a Q&A with Ava DuVernay.
“Colin in Black and White” can feel sentimental and blunt in a way that feels as disparate as those two terms.
Ava Duvernay’s upcoming limited series will explore Colin Kaepernick’s high school years, examining issues such as race, class, and culture.
The iconoclastic filmmaker, whose career spans five decades, reflects on his “lifetime struggle” to survive in an environment that insists on him being anything but himself.
Filmmakers like Barry Jenkins are getting tired of being asked narrow-minded questions about Blackness. Here’s an avoidance guide.
James Wan’s “The Trench” isn’t moving forward, either.
SXSW: The personnel database for diverse below-the-line crew is only a month old, but ARRAY founder DuVernay is already looking forward to when it becomes “obsolete.”
Ava DuVernay also questioned the Hollywood Foreign Press after the organization, plagued by scandal, announced inclusion efforts on social media.
DuVernay was critical of the Hollywood Foreign Press for not having any Black members in the voting body.
The acclaimed book explores social stratification in the U.S. by comparing it to India and Nazi Germany’s caste systems.
“I want to live in a country where my President is not afraid to call white supremacists and Nazis racists thugs and terrorists,” Ruffalo wrote on social media.
Jordan Peele, Ava DuVernay, and more Hollywood voices have all advocated for the arrests of the officers who killed Taylor in March.
