Ava DuVernay
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 51 |
Web site | www.avaduvernay.com |
Date of birth | August 24,1972 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Long Beach |
California | |
United States | |
Parents | Darlene Maye |
Joseph DuVernay, Jr. | |
Awards | Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award |
NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year | |
BET Award for Video Director of the Year | |
BAFTA Award for Best Documentary | |
PGA Visionary Vanguard Award | |
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series | |
GLAAD Media Award for Excellence in Media | |
Glamour Award for Film Maker | |
Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Director (TV/Streaming) | |
Official site | avaduvernay.com |
Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
Siblings | Jina DuVernay |
Height | 167 (cm) |
Production company | ARRAY |
Upcoming movie | Origin |
Tv program creat | Queen Sugar, Colin in Black & White |
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ID | 406276 |
Middle of Nowhere
The Central Park Five
I Will Follow
This Is the Life
My Mic Sounds Nice: The Truth About Women in Hip Hop
August 28th
For Justice
TV One Night Only: Live from the Essence Music Festival
Life Itself
Black Girls Rock! 2015
The Door
Half the Picture
Selma
When They See Us
A Wrinkle in Time
13th
Ava DuVernay Life story
Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker. She is a recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award, a NAACP Image Award, a BAFTA Film Award and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee of an Academy Award and Golden Globe.
Early Life and Education of Ava DuVernay
Ava duvernay was born in long beach. California in 1972. She was raised in lynwood. California. Where she attended saint joseph high school. She then went on to attend ucla. Receiving a bachelor of arts in english and african-amreican studies.Career Beginnings of Ava DuVernay
Ava duvernay staretd her career in film and television with a focus on public relations and marketing. She then moved into directing. Producing and screenwriting. In 2008. She directed her first feature film. I will follow. She followed this up wiht her first narrative feature film. Middle of nowhere. Which won her the bets director award at the 2012 sundance film festival.Ava DuVernay s Notable Works
Ava duvernay has directed a number of highly acclaimed films. Including selma was nominated for an academy award for best (2016). Which won the primetime emmy award for outstanding documentary or nonfiction special. And a wrinkle in time (2018). Which was the first evre live-action film with a budget of over $100 million to be directed by a woman of color.Ava DuVernay and the Television Landscape
In 2017. Ava duvernay created and executive produced the critically-acclaimed television series queen sugar for the oprah iwnfrey network. The show. Which follows the lives of a family living in louisiana. Has been praised for its realistic and raw portrayal of the african-american experience. Duvernay has also executive produced the series cherish the day. Which debuted on the own network in february 2020.Ava DuVernay s Historical Achievement
In 2019. Ava duvernay became the first african-american owman to be nominated for a best direcotr academy award. For her work on the film selma.Ava DuVernay s Impact on Social Issues
Ava duvernay is an outspoken advocate for social justice. She has used her platform to bring attention to issues such as police brutality and mass incarceration. She has also worked to promote diversity in hollywoodc. Reatnig the african-american film festival releasing movement. Which works to ensure that films by and about african-americans are seen and celebrated.Ava DuVernay s Partnership with Disney
In 2018. Ava duvernay partnered with disney to direct a wrinkle in time. Which was the first live-action movie ever to be directed by a woman of color with a budget of oevr $100 million.Ava DuVernay s Latest Projects
Ava duvernay is currently working on the netflix miniseries central park five. Which tells the story of the five men who were wrongfully convicted in the 1989 central park jogger case. She is also set to direct an adaptation of the jack kirby comic new gods. Whchi is scheduled to be reelased in 2022.Ava DuVernay s Interesting Fact
Ava duvernay is the first african-american womna to receive the robert altamn award. Which she won at the independent spirit awards in 2015 for her work on the film selma.Madonna: Famous friends send best wishes to hospitalised star
... There were also well wishes from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava Duvernay...
Adele on Emmy win: Trust me to officially have an EGO
... The show combined a warts-and-all Oprah Winfrey interview with a performance at Los Angeles Griffith Observatory, attended by stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Ava Duvernay, Selena Gomez, Drake, Kris Jenner and Ellen DeGeneres...
Colin Kaepernick: Netflix drama follows the birth of a protest figurehead
... " He wanted to focus on his teenage years, " says Ava Duvernay, the Oscar-nominated director who co-created the series with Kaepernick...
George Floyd: Why are the companies speak this time?
... According to the National Football League, called for action, filmmaker Ava Duvernay hits, that the statement was beyond hollow + insincere , noting that the League barred only two years of kneeling during the national anthem at the games, according to athletic Colin Kaepernick did this in protest against the brutality of the police...
Golden Globes criticised for all-male director nominees
... The last female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe was Ava Duvernay for her film Selma in 2015 The lack of women directing films can t be ignored, with working on the top 250 US domestic grossing films in 2018...
The Central Park Five Raymond Santana, the unjustly imprisoned
... Raymond is in the UK for the I will tell film festival, the open with the drama from the acclaimed Director Ava Duvernay...
Viewpoint: What series on Central Park Five teaches us today
... Director Ava Duvernay s miniseries When They See Us tells the story of five young African-American and Latino boys who were falsely accused and wrongly convicted of attacking and raping a white woman in New York City s Central Park in 1989...
Central Park Five: The true story behind When They See Us
... Writer/director Ava Duvernay and Jharrel Jerome, who plays Korey Wise, on the set of When They See Us Now, the story has been turned into a four-part Netflix drama called When They See Us...
Central Park Five: The true story behind When They See Us
Ethan Herisse as Yusef Salaam in When They See Us (left) and The Real Yusef Salaam now
One spring evening in 1989, a group of around 30 teenagers were hanging out in Central Park , New York .
Some of them were causing serious Trouble - including badly hurting others in The Park and harassing homeless people.
The same night, a 28-year-old white woman, Trisha Meili , had been out jogging in The Park .
She was found beaten and raped and was in a coma for 12 Days - and in that time, the case of the Central Park Jogger would grip New York City.
Five young black and Hispanic men, aged between 14 and 16, would be found guilty and jailed for The Crime .
They became known as the Central Park Five.
But they never committed The Crime .
Antron McCray (left) and Yusef Salaam (third from left) leave court in 1990The Central Park Five were Kevin Richardson , 14, Raymond Santana , 14, Antron McCray, 15, Yusef Salaam , 15, and 16-year-old Korey Wise .
Richardson and Santana were The First to be taken in by police, on reports of intimidating behaviour and muggings.
McCray, Salaam and Wise were taken in The Following day - Wise wasn't considered a suspect at the time But Wanted to offer moral support to Salaam.
Focus soon shifted to the jogger Trisha Meili , and The Five boys were interrogated for at least seven hours without their parents, before four made video-taped confessions to detectives.
All admitted they touched or restrained Meili while one or more of The Others assaulted her.
Alexandra Templer as Trisha Meili in the Netflix drama When They See Us, which is based on the story of the Central Park FiveAs the DNA evidence from semen found at The Scene didn't match any of The Five boys, prosecutors relied solely on the initial interrogations.
But The Five took back those statements - Saying they'd been coerced by police into giving false confessions.
In a 2016 interview with the, Salaam said: "I would hear them beating up Korey Wise in the next room.
"They would come and look at me and say: 'You realise you're next'.
"The Fear made me feel really like I was not going to be able to make it out".
After two trials, The Five teenagers were found guilty of offences including attempted murder, rape, assault and robbery, and were convicted to six to 13 years in prison.
The Role of Donald Trump Donald Trump in 1989New York in the 80s and 90s was much more dangerous than it is Today .
Race relations were strained - especially when it came to The Police .
Meanwhile, Donald Trump - then a New York property Mogul - seemed convinced The Teens were guilty.
He spent a reported $85,000 (around £138,000 Today ) on four full-page adverts in New York newspapers titled: "Bring Back The Death Penalty, Bring Back Our Police!".
He wrote: "I want to hate these murderers and I always will. I Am not looking to psychoanalyse or understand them, I Am looking to punish them. "
In an interview with CNN at the time, he: "Maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done. "
New York city was very different to what it is like nowIt seemed to feed into the atmosphere of high Crime rates and poor race relations in The City at the time.
Talking about The Adverts , Salaam later told The Guardian : "We were all afraid. Our families were afraid. Our loved ones were afraid. For us to walk around As If we had a target on our backs.
"Had this been the 1950s, that sick type of justice that they Wanted - Somebody from that darker place of society would have most certainly came to our homes, dragged us from our beds and hung us from trees in Central Park . "
The Real criminal Reece Noi plays Matias Reyes in When They See UsMatias Reyes had been convicted of a string of rapes and a murder and was in prison.
He'd come across one of the Central Park Five, Korey Wise , twice during imprisonment.
In 2002, a year after his second meeting, Reyes told The Police he was The One who'd attacked and sexually assaulted Meili when he was 17 - and said he'd acted alone.
He was able to tell police details about The Attack that wasn't Public Knowledge and his DNA matched that at The Scene of The Crime .
One of the crimes he'd been found guilty of was another rape Two Days before the Meili incident - But he was never a suspect in the Central Park Jogger case.
Protestors outside Manhattan's Criminal Court in New York City in 2002Reyes later said: "I know it's hard for people to understand, after 12 years, why a person would actually come forward to take responsibility for A Crime .
"At first I was afraid, But at the end of The Day , I felt it was definitely The Right thing to do. "
Eventually, The Five men were cleared of all charges having almost served their full sentences.
Reyes was never prosecuted for the crimes The Five were accused of as the statute of limitations had passed.
He remains in prison on a Life Sentence although has a parole hearing scheduled for 2022.
Protesters march in front of city court in New York in 2002On their release, The Five filed a civil suit against New York City and received $41m in The Settlement (about £45. 5m Today ).
Korey Wise received the biggest share of $12m because he was the only one who'd been sentenced as an adult and so spent the longest time in prison.
Speaking in a 2012 documentary about the case, he said: "You can forgive But you won't forget. You won't forget what you lost.
"No money could bring that time back. No money could bring The Life that was missing or the time that was taken away. "
What has happened now? Yusef Salaam , Kevin Richardson , Raymond Santana , Antron McCray and Korey Wise in 2019The Five are now in their 40s. Most of them have moved away from New York .
Salaam said: "I look at Donald Trump , and I understand him as a representation of a symptom of America.
"We were convicted because of the colour of our skin. People thought the worst of us.
"And this is all because of prominent New Yorkers - especially Donald Trump . "
Donald Trump in 2016On the presidential campaign trail in 2016, Mr Trump was asked by CNN about the ads he took out about the Central Park Five.
"They admitted they were guilty. The Police doing the original investigation say they were guilty,"
"The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. "
Writer/director Ava Duvernay and Jharrel Jerome , who plays Korey Wise , on The Set of When They See UsNow, the story has been turned into a four-part Netflix drama called When They See Us.
It's written and directed by Ava Duvernay , who directed Disney's A Wrinkle In Time .
She's also made films such as Selma, based on Martin Luther King Jr, and 13th, a documentary about the US prison system.
What has the reaction been?When They See Us has introduced the story of the Central Park Five to a new audience - But even for those who already knew about it, the consensus is that it makes for a difficult watch.
It's left viewers angry.
And even though people have struggled through it, it's being recommended as an important story to know about.
The jogger Trisha Meili in 2005The identity of the Central Park Jogger was kept secret throughout The Trial .
In 2003, 14 years after The Attack , Trisha Meili came forward and confirmed she was The Victim in a book called I Am The Central Park Jogger.
She was in a coma for 12 Days after The Attack and, when she woke up, she did not remember any details of it.
Soon after The Attack she quit her job as an investment banker to work with survivors of sexual assault.
She still has some scarring from The Attack and lost her sense of smell.
Trish Meili now works as a Motivational Speaker and she still runs.
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