Some prominent Hollywood names are among the filmmakers and industry figures who’ve signed a pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions…
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Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein and Netflix announced Tuesday they've settled the defamation lawsuit she filed four years ago over…
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay remembered working as a publicist years ago, struggling to draw major traffic to star-studded events for the…
Cue all the "did 'Barbie' direct itself" snark. But Greta Gerwig not being among the five best director nominees for…
Ava DuVernay kept hearing she had to read "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents." She had Isabel Wilkerson's book in…
Words like "important" and "vital" are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It's not that we…
The hundreds of television series on U.S. broadcast, cable and streaming platforms, and the executive producers creating them, are the…
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay will return to the Toronto International Film Festival with her latest offering, Origin. DuVernay’s film will have…
Bradley Cooper's Leonard Bernstein drama "Maestro," Sofia Coppola's Priscilla Presley movie, Michael Mann's "Ferrari," David Fincher's "The Killer" and Ava…
Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay will serve as guest artistic director at AFI Fest 2022. DuVernay has selected three independent…
The ripple effect of good is real–as reflected in SHOOT’s Emmy season coverage. Last month’s Emmy Preview included observations from…
STARZ president and CEO Jeffrey Hirsch announced today (5/19) at the company’s inaugural #TakeTheLead Summit that it is developing an…
Filmmaker Haile Gerima is having a long overdue moment and he's a little conflicted about it. The 75-year-old director of…
Though having to go virtual in the face of a pandemic, AFI Fest this past week (10/15-22) remained steadfast as…
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay will be honored next month by MacDowell, which is presenting its inaugural Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award…
Colin Kaepernick is joining with Emmy-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay on a Netflix drama series about the teenage roots of the…
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay has been elected to the film academy’s Board of Governors for the first time. The Academy of…
Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein has sued Netflix and film director Ava DuVernay over her portrayal in the streaming service's…
To separate filmmaker and TV producer Ava DuVernay's trenchant, history-driven projects, including "Selma" and "When They See Us," from her…
Through laughs, tears and speeches that turned into sermons and affirmations, the overarching theme of this year's star-studded Essence luncheon…
The Directors Guild of America has announced the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Limited Series;…
Ava DuVernay, award-winning writer, director and producer, is set to receive the prestigious Television Showman of the Year from the…
Cicely Tyson will join the cast as a series regular in Ava DuVernay's new romance anthology series on OWN, "Cherish…
Netflix is made for bingeing, but filmmaker Ava DuVernay thinks that audiences should watch her Central Park Five miniseries "When…
Aliyah Royale imagined her TV series debut might be a comedy. Instead, she plunged into an emotionally demanding role in…
Six thought leaders–Casey Bloys, Ava DuVernay, Doug Herzog, Pearlena Igbokwe, David Madden and Lisa Nishimura–have been appointed by Television Academy…
