VENICE (Reuters) - Award-winning director Ava DuVernay on Wednesday became the first African American woman to present a movie in competition at the Venice Film Festival, overcoming sceptics who had ...
DuVernay's powerful biographical drama is the first movie by a Black U.S. female director to be included in the official competition at the world's oldest film festival. By Patrick Brzeski, Alex ...
“That is the part where you look up and you say, ‘How could people have allowed their neighbors to be taken and put in the camps?’” Origin director Ava DuVernay says of the deep roots of ...
When we think of Venetian glass, our minds leap to the blazing furnaces of Murano, to delicate filigree and the vivid colors of the Renaissance. This iconic and universally recognized image tells only ...
At the Venice Film Festival press conference for Ava DuVernay‘s new film “Origin” on Wednesday, the director revealed that she has previously been told not to apply to the festival because “you won’t ...
While much of the talk surrounding this year’s Venice Film Festival has been about three men who stand accused of heinous offenses, the 80 th edition of the fest also made history: Ava DuVernay, whose ...
VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 06: Director Ava DuVernay attends a photocall for "Origin" at the 80th Venice International Film Festival Getty Ava DuVernay is making history today. In Venice with Origin, ...
"Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social ...
The film stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Niecy Nash-Betts, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash-Betts, Vera Farmiga, Audra McDonald, Nick Offerman, Blair Underwood, Connie Nielsen, Emily Yancy, Jasmine Cephas-Jones, ...