With her celebrated small-screen foray Queen Sugar entering
its fourth season, DuVernay, 46, continues to give opportunities to
first-time showrunners and directors on the OWN hit. The coming year
sees her expand her TV empire to broadcast with Red Line and streaming with Central Park Five. The latter, a timely tell-off to Donald Trump, will have her writing and directing TV for the first time since the Queen Sugar pilot.
What defines a “hit” right now “A true point of view that taps into some part of the zeitgeist with authenticity.”
Why aren’t more people in the industry talking about … “The
underlying issues that instigate the need for diversity and inclusion.
Instead of looking at cosmetic solutions, we should delve into the root
causes. You can’t heal a disease with perfume.”
The most significant change to writers rooms since #MeToo has been“Queen Sugar has had majority women writers in all four seasons since debut. We also had majority women writers on Central Park Five and The Red Line. Issues of dignity for women have always been at the top of our minds.”
Tonight at 7/6c @owntv presents the broadcast debut of filmmaker + ARRAY founder @ava’s historic recount ‘August 28: A Day in the Life of a People’. Journey through six distinct moments in time. All remarkable. All have helped define our world. The 22 minute cinematic portrait stars Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Micheal Ealy, Andre Holland, Regina King, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lupita Nyong’o, David Oyelowo, and Glynn Thurman. #film #tv #broadcast #history #africanamerican #nmaahc https://www.instagram.com/p/BnCg3MsFwL1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g94hzvct4n9o
“We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.”
Happy 46th Birthday Ava Duvernay (August 24, 1972)
#ThrowbackThursday Because @Ava DuVernay’s beautiful short will be aired on OWN. Here she is on set filming ‘August 28: A Day In The Life Of A People’ .
Programming highlights include Terence Nance and the creative team behind his new, highly acclaimed HBO series, Random Acts of Flyness, and a look at Ava DuVernay’s series Queen Sugar with her all-star directing team, including Julie Dash. An additional day of Screen Forward Talks programming, Time for Action, is scheduled for Saturday, September 15.
IFP Week’s marquee event, with an all-star line-up of filmmakers and creators past and present, will be held on Sunday, September 16. With 40 years under its belt, thousands of projects, and countless stories, we’ll celebrate IFP’s history with these talks showcasing the progress and promise of independent storytelling across platforms.
The event will feature creator Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty); executive producers Kishori Rajan and Kelley Robins Hicks, and writer/director Darius Clark Monroewith a behind-the-scenes look at their HBO series, Random Acts of Flyness; a look at Ava DuVernay’s OWN series Queen Sugar with her all-star directing team, including showrunner Kat Candler (Hellion), producing director DeMane Davis (Lift), and series directors Julie Dash(Daughters of the Dust) and Lauren Wolkstein (The Strange Ones); and a line-up of special surprise guests and luminaries from IFP’s 40 years.
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