Ava DuVernay’s Array media company is launching a new initiative designed to hold police officers accountable. The Law Enforcement Accountability Project, or LEAP, which DuVernay announced in an appearance on Monday’s Ellen DeGeneres Show, is a fund focused on storytelling around police violence and abuse that will commission projects across multiple forms of media including film, literature, theater, dance, fine …
The history-making Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker second unit director is teaming with Ava DuVernay to adapt Octavia E. Butler’s sci-fi novel Dawn as an Amazon Studios drama series. The project, which is currently in development with a sizable script-to-series commitment, will be written and directed by Mahoney, who last year became the first woman and first African American …
On January 26, Ava DuVernay introduced a tribute to the late Nipsey Hussle at the 2020 Grammy Awards that included performances by Meek Mill, DJ Khaled and John Legend — but the Emmy-winning director has much more planned. Sources say DuVernay is working on a Hussle documentary for which Netflix has won the rights. The late Grammy-winning rapper, whose real …
Kat Candler and Ava DuVernay are re-teaming for an undisclosed drama series title in works under TNT after their ‘Queen Sugar’ series collaboration. To be written and executive produced by Kat Candler, the one-hour drama will chronicle the life of a struggling young wife and mother who in the aftermath of a deadly oil refinery explosion that takes the life …
Event Takes Place Thursday, November 7, in Beverly Hills The SAG-AFTRA Foundation announced the first two honorees for its 4th Annual Patron of the Artists Awards to be held on Thursday, November 7 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. Director, producer and writer Ava DuVernay will be one of two industry leaders to receive …
Academy award nominated director, writer, producer, Ava DuVernay has penned down a multi-year pact deal with Warner Bros. Television. The newly signed deal is said to be worth a total of $100 million for Ava. The executive producer for Queen Sugar will be assigned to develop new projects for the Warner Bros. TV embodying drama, comedy, longform and event series, …
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