Ava DuVernay on Queen Sugar and Her Hollywood Journey [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/4/174:00 AM

It’s been a busy five years for Ava DuVernay. Since winning the Best Director Award at Sundance Film Festival in 2012, she has accrued many “firsts”: becoming the first black female director to have a movie (Selma) nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and now to helm a film with a $100 million budget (Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time). DuVernay’s work goes beyond feature movies, to include 13th, the award-winning documentary on mass incarceration, a forthcoming Netflix limited series about the Central Park Five, and a TV and digital-media deal with Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films.

[For more of this story, written by Adrienne Green, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/en...eason-finale/535710/]

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