Ava DuVernay: ‘We need to wake up. We’re less than a year away from a transition of power’
The acclaimed film-maker talks about her conversation-starting new film Origin, working outside of the studio system and why Black women are so often gaslit
September 2019
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Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
May 2019
Ava DuVernay: 'I’m not getting John Wick 3, even though I’d love to make it'
The acclaimed film-maker talks about the barriers faced by female directors in Hollywood and her Netflix miniseries about the injustices faced by the Central Park Five
July 2017
Ava DuVernay set to take on Central Park Five series for Netflix
Film-maker who worked with streaming service on documentary 13th will write and direct limited series on the five teenagers wrongfully accused in 1989 attack
April 2017
'We can't wait for Hollywood to change' - the directors reframing black history
From Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro to Ava DuVernay’s 13th, the factual film-makers tackling race in the era of Black Lives Matter
February 2017
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Ava DuVernay on the legacy of slavery: ‘The sad truth is that some minds will not be changed’
Ava DuVernay’s lucid study of the links between slavery and the US penal system is packed with ideas and information
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13th: Ava DuVernay offers up a devastating history of black America
The Selma director explores race and incarceration with a powerful and timely documentary
13th review – Ava DuVernay's angry, persuasive film about the jailing of black men
The Selma director’s fiercely radical Netflix documentary argues that America’s 13th constitutional amendment perpetuated a link between prison and slavery
September 2016
Ava DuVernay: 'The black body is being used for profit and politics'
The Selma director unravels the ‘American quilt of injustice, oppression and systemic racism’ that is mass incarceration in her new documentary, 13th
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13th review: Ava DuVernay doc shows prisons are the new plantations
DuVernay’s incendiary film, which world premieres at the New York film festival, is a wakeup call that steers clear of broad brush Michael Moorisms to offer a brutal analysis of race and the law in the US
The 13th: inside Ava DuVernay's Netflix prison documentary on racial inequality
Hillary Clinton’s controversial ‘super-predators’ remark is highlighted in trailer of film on why the US has produced the highest rate of incarceration in the world
