Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay’s latest film Origin so impacted audiences at the Venice Film Festival in Italy that it reportedly inspired an astounding nine-minute standing ovation. The first Black female director to be nominated for an Academy Award for 2014’s Selma is now the first Black female director from the United States to take part in […]
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