Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay (born August 24, 1972 in Long Beach ) is an American film director .
Life
Ava DuVernay grew up in Lynwood and Compton , California . She studied English and African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles , which she graduated with a BA in 1995.
She started her professional life as a journalist, switched to PR management and in 1999 founded her own agency "DVA Media + Marketing". In 2008 she produced her first feature This Is the Life through the "Good Life Cafes" in Los Angeles . In 2011 she made her first feature film, I Will Follow , about the death of her aunt , with Salli Richardson in the lead role. Her feature Middle of Nowhere was recognized at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival .
She directed the first major production for the film Selma, which came out in late 2014 . The film is about Martin Luther King , Lyndon B. Johnson and the marches of the civil rights movement from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. To criticism of the attitude of President Johnson depicted in the film's script , DuVernay replied that her film was not a documentary, she was herself not a historian, but a writer. At the 2015 Academy Awards, the film received an award in the Best Song category . In the nominations, there was criticism that neither the black lead actor David Oyelowo nor she had been considered.
Her documentary The 13th (13th) won the British Academy Film Awards in 2017 and was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2017 Academy Awards .
With her film A Wrinkle in Time , a film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engles youth novel of the same name , she was the first black director to be given a budget of over 100 million dollars for a real- life version . In its opening week, it was the second most successful film after the recently released Black Panther .
DuVernay's series Queen Sugar has been on the Oprah Winfrey Network since 2016 , the third season of which is in the works.
In 2018 she was appointed to the competition jury of the 71st Cannes Film Festival .
Filmography (selection)
Movie
- 2008: This Is the Life
- 2010: I Will Follow
- 2014: Selma
- 2016: The 13th (13th)
- 2018: The time puzzles (A Wrinkle in Time)
watch TV
- 2013: Scandal (Director, an episode)
- since 2016: Queen Sugar (screenplay and direction, two seasons)
- 2019: When They See Us (mini-series, four episodes)
Web links
- Literature by and about Ava DuVernay in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Ava DuVernay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ava DuVernay , at bio.
- Hannah Pilarczyk: "Selma" director DuVernay: The filmmaker of the hour , interview, Spiegel-Online , February 20, 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ Mary Milliken: "Selma" director makes history before awards are bestowed , at Reuters , January 6, 2015
- ^ Academy President on Oscar nominations: "I would like to see more diversity" , Spiegel-Online , January 17, 2015
- ^ Nigel M. Smith: Ava DuVernay becomes first woman of color to direct a $ 100m film . In: The Guardian . August 4, 2016, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed July 30, 2017]).
- ↑ In a Disney-dominant weekend, 'Black Panther' edges out 'A Wrinkle in Time' to win the box office - and pass $ 1 billion globally . In: Business Insider Germany . ( businessinsider.de [accessed on March 19, 2018]).
- ↑ Joe Otterson: 'Queen Sugar' Renewed for Season 3, Ava DuVernay Ink's First-Look TV Deal With Harpo Films . In: Variety . July 26, 2017 ( variety.com [accessed March 19, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | DuVernay, Ava |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Long Beach |