Ava DuVernay

Sundance Award-winning filmmaker

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Ava DuVernay is the founder of AFFRM, the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement and principal of the DuVernay Agency, a PR firm whose clients include many major studios. Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her film Middle of Nowhere., she is also the director of Selma and of 13th.

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Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix series dives into the early life of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

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