Director Ava DuVernay's breakthrough 2014 film, Selma, earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director, the first for a female African-American auteur. The Compton-raised filmmaker is now ...

*Ava DuVernay, the Golden Globe and Academy Award nominated creative force behind “When They See Us” says Antron McCray, Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam—once known as ...

How busy is director Ava DuVernay? Really, really busy. So busy that the only time she could sit down for our interview was a Saturday afternoon. And the night before, she had been shooting Disney's A ...

Ahead, we list 25 of the best movies made by women, including filmmakers like Sofia Coppola, Ava DuVernay, Jane Campion, ...

America Ferrera learns that one of her cousins is director Ava DuVernay in the upcoming 12th season of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Mexico’s leading film festival, founded in the capital of Michoacán in 2003 to celebrate auteur cinema, this year welcomes Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay as Jury President of the 23rd Morelia ...

Documentary work also plays a central role in Cinema & Conversations programming. Academy Award winner Ben Proudfoot will present Eyes of Ghana. Palestine’s Oscar entry, Palestine 36, directed by ...

*Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay recently made clear that she wants folks to stop calling her “auntie.” And now Oprah and Gayle King are co-signing her sentiment. As we previously reported, DuVernay ...

Growing up in Compton, filmmaker Ava DuVernay thought that when it came to African American history, the Black Panthers and Malcom X were the cool guys. Martin Luther King Jr. was always a little ...

The anticipated Ava DuVernay (Selma) adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s fantasy classic A Wrinkle in Time already has Oprah Windrey on board, and word is the movie’s about to add two more formidable ...