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Ava Duvernay

Holding The Door

Craig Carpenter | Posted 04.14.2013 | Arts
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Craig Carpenter

Monday, Ava DuVernay released a new short film, The Door, commissioned by the fashion house Miu Miu for premiere during New York's Fashion Week, and, as has come to be expected from her, it is a thing of beauty.

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MUST-SEE: The Most Stunning Fashion Ad We've Ever Seen!

The Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 02.11.2013 | Black Voices
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Sit back, relax and prepare to watch the most stunning fashion film you've ever seen. Seriously. Over the past two years, Miu Miu has released a s...

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Black Women Directors at the Helm

Yvonna Russell | Posted 01.29.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Ava Duvernay, Pearl Cleage, Dee Rees, Women Directors, African Americans, Films, Indiewire, Melissa Silverstein, Black Voices News
Yvonna Russell

We can all imagine the determination it took to kick through the glass ceiling for these talented women of color film directors.

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Ava DuVernay, Independent Filmmaker, Fires Up Black Cinema

AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 12.19.2012 | Black Voices
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LOS ANGELES — The rebirth of black independent film is taking place in a small office in the San Fernando Valley. This is where filmmaker Ava D...

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Middle of Nowhere: A Movie Review

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 12.12.2012 | Entertainment
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Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

Middle of Nowhere is beautifully drawn and poetically written. It teaches about family, race, character and the often unknowable arc of a life, without becoming pedantic or pretending to have answers.

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Middle of Nowhere and the Black Independent Film Movement

Roya Rastegar | Posted 12.11.2012 | Black Voices
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Roya Rastegar

This weekend will be a critical marker for the burgeoning independent Black film movement. Opening in theaters in select cities this Friday, Middle of Nowhere is a compelling drama about a young newlywed who puts her happiness on hold as she eagerly awaits for her husband's early release from a five-year prison sentence.

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Movie Review: Middle of Nowhere

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.08.2012 | Entertainment
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Marshall Fine

Quiet but compelling, emotionally buttoned-up and naked at the same time, Ava DuVernay's Middle of Nowhere is a film about holding still while trying to move forward.

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Sundance Award-Winner Releases Trailer For New Film

Posted 08.13.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Kinyarwanda, Video, Ava Duvernay, 'Middle of Nowhere', Bv-Pop-Culture-Entertainment, Black Voices News, Middle of Nowhere Trailer, African-American Film Festival, Black Voices News

After making history earlier this year at the annual Sundance Film Festival by becoming the first African American women to win the award for best dir...

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Sundance 2012 Top Picks: Keeping Us Human

Roya Rastegar | Posted 04.07.2012 | Entertainment
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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 | Black Voices
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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 | Entertainment
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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 | Black Voices
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 | Black Voices
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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