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“Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn’t done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.”

PEOPLE OF INFLUENCE | Ava DuVernay

Director, Marketer, Distributor

• First African-American woman to win the Best Director prize at Sundance for Middle of Nowhere

• Founded the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM)

• Founded The DuVernay Agency Media + Marketing in 1999 which executes campaigns for some of the biggest tv and film studios (NBC, CBS, Disney, etc.)

• Directing a documentary about Venus Williams

• Writes and directs all of her films

• All of them as gorgeous as her