Ava DuVernay
Writer, Producer, Director and Distributor of Independent Film.
She's been nominated as the first black woman for many Academy awards.
She was the first black woman to direct a live-action film with a huge budget (talking millions).
She created, co-wrote, and directed the Netflix drama miniseries When They See Us, based on the 1989 Central Park jogger case.
In 2010, she founded the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM), her own company to distribute films made by or focusing on black people.
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