Ava DuVernay

Apr 17, 2024 | time.com | Ava DuVernay |Blake Lively |Kamala D. Harris |Daniel Kaluuya

By Ava DuVernayApril 17, 2024 6:56 AM EDTLesley Lokko is one of those forces of nature who does many things well. She’s an acclaimed architect and academic, having established the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture. But one of the things I love about her is that while she was thriving as a star in the architecture world, she was also writing novels. Yes, she’s penned more than a dozen books chronicling tales of intrigue, romance, and adventure.

Mar 8, 2024 | optionstheedge.com | Kong Wai Yeng |Sofia Coppola |Kathryn Bigelow |Ava DuVernay

Female filmmakers are rising above pressure and prejudice to produce stories that uplift others. 8 March 2024 - 2:59pm Celine Song's debut Past Lives is a wistful drama that spans decades and crosses continents (Photo: Past Lives) The challenges female directors face, magnified by the industry’s toxic brew and sexism, are structural and systemic.

Feb 5, 2024 | portside.org | Ava DuVernay |Amy Goodman

“Origin”: Ava DuVernay’s New Film Dramatizes “Caste,” From U.S. Racism to India’s Dalits to Nazi Germany Published February 5, 2024 We speak with award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay about her latest feature film, Origin, which explores discrimination in the United States and beyond through a dramatization of the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson, whose process of writing the book is a central part of the film’s story.

Jan 19, 2024 | ted.com | Ava DuVernay

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Jan 16, 2024 | newspub.live | Ava DuVernay

Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Academy Museum When filmmaker Ava DuVernay first read Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, she was so stunned, she reread it twice. The bestselling book draws a line between India’s caste system, the hierarchies of Nazi Germany and the historic subjugation of Black people in the United States. “It took me a really long time to wrap my mind around the idea that there’s something underneath racism that’s called caste,” DuVernay says.