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OSCARS Q&A: Ava DuVernay

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 3, 2013 @ 10:30am PSTTags: Ava DuVernay, Awardsline, Middle Of Nowhere, Oscars

Christy Grosz is Editor of AwardsLine.

In a season dominated by splashy studio fare from relatively mainstream directors, the quiet African-American focused Middle Of Nowhere is something of an anomaly. Shot in just 19 days in and around Los Angeles, the microbudgeted film about a woman who works to earn her nursing degree while dealing with a husband in prison is the second feature from former publicist Ava DuVernay, who started her filmmaking career just five years ago at age 35. Not only did DuVernay write and direct the feature—which has earned three Independent Spirit Award nominations, plus a breakthrough Gotham Award for star Emayatzy Corinealdi—but she launched her own film collective, AFFRM, to distribute. On the eve of a new year, and in the middle of moving, DuVernay took time to speak with AwardsLine about her work as a businesswoman and as a filmmaker.

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Sundance Winner Ava DuVernay Helms Venus Williams Doc For ESPN

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday September 7, 2012 @ 7:00am PDTTags: Ava DuVernay, Middle Of Nowhere, Toronto Film Festival

EXCLUSIVE: This year’s Sundance Film Festival best director Ava DuVernay is helming an in-depth documentary that explores tennis star Venus Williams’ fight for fair pay at Wimbledon. Entitled Venus VS, the project is directed by … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Middle Of Nowhere’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 6:03pm PDTTags: Ava DuVernay, Middle Of Nowhere, Participant Media

Here’s a trailer for Sundance Best Director winner Middle Of Nowhere, which Participant Media and AFFRM acquired at the festival and plan to release October 12th. Written and directed by Ava DuVernay, the movie stars Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Omari Hardwick, Lorraine Touissaint, Edwina Findley and Sharon Lawrence.

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