Ava DuVernay
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Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a BAFTA Film Award, and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee for an Academy Award and Golden Globe. In 2011, she founded her independent distribution company ARRAY. S.
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Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.
So I came to realize that those dreams I'd been dreaming, what was the problem, what was so off, what was the error. It's cuz the dreams are too small.
speaking at SXSW 2015,
Filmography 34
Girls Trip
Selma
A Wrinkle in Time
The White Tiger
13th
Life Itself
Origin
Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now
Adele One Night Only
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Middle of Nowhere
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
I Will Follow
Half the Picture
13th: A Conversation with Oprah Winfrey & Ava DuVernay
This Is the Life
Only in Theaters
Family Feud
My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip Hop
Becoming King
Regard Noir
Venus VS.
Saturday Night Life
Black America Again
Aggie
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
And She Could Be Next105 credits on file
Television 24
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Daily Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Tamron Hall
CBS News Sunday Morning
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
When They See Us
Chelsea
Finding Your Roots
Queen Sugar
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Naomi
Colin in Black and White
Desus & Mero
DMZ
#blackAF
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
The Red Line
Dear...
Cherish the Day
Hollywood BlackAwards 6
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About this person
Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a BAFTA Film Award, and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee for an Academy Award and Golden Globe. In 2011, she founded her independent distribution company ARRAY. After making her directoral debut, I Will Follow (2010), DuVernay won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere, becoming the first black woman to win the award.
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