Ava Duvernay

Sundance 2012 Top Picks: Keeping Us Human

Roya Rastegar | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: John Krasinski, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Michael Cera, Jason Ritter, Valley of Saints, Sundance Film Festival, Ava Duvernay, Filly Brown, Terence Nance, Amanda Seyfried, Common, Edward James Olmos, Karin Chien, Kashmir, Entertainment News
Roya Rastegar

In current times of civil unrest, economic injury, and political failure, we depend on love -- in all its complexity and even through untenable circumstances -- to keep ourselves human. Here are the top 10 films that cannot be missed in the coming year:

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WATCH: Ava Duvernay's Historic Win At Sundance

Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Ava Duvernay Best Director, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Video, Middle of Nowhere Film, Middle of Nowhere, Benh-Zeitlin, Ava Duvernay, Middle of Nowhere Directorial Award, Ava Duvernay Middle of Nowhere, Middle of Nowhere Award, Ava Duvernay Best Director Sundance, Affrm, Middle of Nowhere Sundance, Black Voices News

Ava DuVernay won the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival for her drama 'Middle Of Nowhere — making her the first black woman to take h...

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Sundance, Ice-T, and Shades of the American Race in Cinema

Courtney Garcia | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Spike Lee, Entertainment News, Sundance Film Festival, Red Tails, Common, Race Relations, Ice T, Sheldon Candis, Omari Hardwick, Ava Duvernay, Sam Pollard, Black Film, Sundance Film Festival 2012, David Oyelowo, Entertainment News
Courtney Garcia

Representation of the collective diaspora has always been thwarted by our need to classify films according to races other than white. Still, while labels can be debilitating, they can also be manipulated.

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Brennan Williams

Filmmaker Talks The Release Of 'Kinyarwanda'

HuffingtonPost.com | Brennan Williams | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Kinyarwanda, Video, Ava Duvernay, African-American Film Festival, Bv-Pop-Culture-Entertainment, Black Voices News

This weekend the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM) is releasing its second film, "Kinyarwanda." Directed by newcomer Alrick Br...

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GAME CHANGERS: Innovators Remixing And Rethinking The Way We Live

Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Isabel Wilkerson, Joshua Kissi, Travis Crumbs, Ava Duvernay, Slideshow, Robert Battle, Tayari Jones, Natalia Allen, Alvin Ailey, Black Voices News

The Age of Obama has been called "the End of Black Firsts" and the end of race. Although neither of those things are true, the discussion about what i...

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