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Ava DuVernay Acquires DR’s 2023 Oscar Entry — Here Are the Other 14 Latin American Entries

Kiko Martinez — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:45:58 +0000

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay (Selma) has acquired Bantú Mama, the Dominican Republic’s entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2023 Academy Awards aka the Oscars. According to Deadline, DuVernay’s company, Array Releasing, will distribute the drama directed by Ivan Herrera in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Bantú Mama

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Rosario Dawson & Benjamin Bratt Cast in DC Comics TV Series Set During Second Civil War

Kiko Martinez — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 19:11:24 +0000

A new, four-part TV series based on the DC comic book DMZ will make its debut on HBO Max. The show stars Rosario Dawson (Zombieland: Double Tap) and Benjamin Bratt (Doctor Strange). Executive produced by Ava DuVernay (Selma), DMZ is set in the near future where Americans are fighting a second Civil War. This war

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Ava DuVernay, Sydney Freeland & Bird Runningwater Team up for Upcoming Drama Featuring Indigenous Family

Kiko Martinez — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:15:20 +0000

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay (13th) is making history in the TV industry. According to the Hollywood Reporter, DuVernay is developing network television’s first-ever drama featuring a Native American family. The series, which is being developed at NBC, is called Sovereign. Along with DuVernay, the project will welcome writer and executive producer Sydney Freeland, a member

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Catch ‘Purple Rain’ & ‘Selena’ at Ava DuVernay’s Free Drive-Ins in LA

Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 15:25:12 +0000

If you’re based in Los Angeles, California, consider your plans for the weekend of Aug. 14 settled. Ava DuVernay, film queen of taste and giving back, is setting up a two-day only drive-in by way of her non-profit, Array. The start to this decade has been a bumpy one, to say the least. Folks who

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Educate Yourself on Police Bias Against Black & Brown Communities With ‘When They See Us’ Study Guide

Manuel Betancourt — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:27:46 +0000

Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us was always meant to incite necessary if uncomfortable conversations — about police bias against black and brown communities, about a justice system that criminalizes poverty, about the epidemic of mass incarceration, about media bias. In sum, about many issues that were timely back in the 1990s when the story of the

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Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Now Is Uplifting a New Generation of Black Brazilian Filmmakers

Kiratiana Freelon — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:50:23 +0000

Most of Brazil’s most internationally-acclaimed films about black people were not produced or directed by Black Brazilians. A white French man directed 1959’s Orfeu Negro. A white Brazilian woman and man directed City of God. A white man produced and directed the critically acclaimed Bus 174 documentary that told the back story of a black

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Here’s What Guillermo del Toro, J. A. Bayona, Issa López & Others Are Watching During Self-Isolation

Manuel Betancourt — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:18:13 +0000

Guillermo del Toro, like many of us, is stuck at home. The Oscar-winning director was in the middle of filming Nightmare Alley with Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper, when he had to shut down production because of COVID-19. Del Toro has been in isolation a little over a month, and admitted on Twitter that “it’s been an

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Here’s the First Teaser for Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five Series Starring John Leguizamo

Manuel Betancourt — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 22:19:43 +0000

On the night of April 19, 1989 a young white female jogger was sexually assaulted in Central Park. The attack left her in a coma for twelve days and sparked a media firestorm. Five young men of color were apprehended in connection with the assault. Despite conflicting evidence and confessions, the “Central Park Five” as

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John Leguizamo Cast in Ava DuVernay’s Netflix Series on Wrongly Convicted ‘Central Park Five’

Kristen Lopez — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:12:22 +0000

After receiving a special Tony award for his contributions to Broadway where he gave an impassioned speech regarding Puerto Rican hurricane victims and children detained near the U.S.-Mexico border, many wondered what writer-director-actor-creator John Leguizamo would do next. He’s transitioning back to the screen, adding to the A-list cast involved in director Ava DuVernay’s series

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Ava DuVernay Taps ‘Real Women Have Curves’ Director Patricia Cardoso for ‘Queen Sugar’

Kristen Lopez — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:37:05 +0000

Director Ava DuVernay remains committed to having only women direct her successful OWN network series, Queen Sugar. With season three set to return to OWN on May 29, the new crop of directors for the season have been revealed and one of them is incredibly exciting. Colombian director Patricia Cardoso, best known for her 2002

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