Ava DuVernay ‘We need to wake up. We’re less than a year away from a transition of power’

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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 gaslitBiopics about white men and their intellectual quests are practically a subgenre. Oppenheimer. The Theory of Everything. The Imitation Game.In Origin, Ava DuVernay flips the script, creating a biopic about a Black woman’s intellectual journey – a story rarely seen in movies. Continue reading...

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