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| image = DuVernaySanFranFilmFest.jpg |
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| caption = at the San Francisco Black Film Festival 2008 |
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| birthdate = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1972|08|24}} |
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| birthplace = [[Long Beach, California]], [[United States]] |
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| birthname = Ava Marie DuVernay |
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| spouse = {{married|[[Evan Bressant]] |1997|2001}} |
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| occupation = [[film director]], [[film marketer]], [[publicist]] |
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| yearsactive = 1999 – present |
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'''Ava DuVernay''' (born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker and marketer. |
'''Ava DuVernay''' (born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker and marketer. |
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Ava DuVernay | |
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 at the San Francisco Black Film Festival 2008 | |
| Born | Ava Marie DuVernay |
| Occupation(s) | film director, film marketer, publicist |
| Years active | 1999 – present |
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Ava DuVernay (born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker and marketer.
DuVernay has worked as a marketer and publicist for more than 15 years, forming The DuVernay Agency in 1999. The company is currently known as DVA Media + Marketing. Her award-winning firm has provided strategy and execution for more than 100 film and television campaigns by directors such as Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, Robert Rodriguez, Bill Condon, Raoul Peck, Gurinder Chadha and Reggie & Gina Bythewood.
Through DVA, she also owns and operates the nation's largest urban retail promotional network, Urban Beauty Collective. She launched Urban Beauty Collective in 2003. She created and launched the African-American blog center, UrbanThoughtCollective.com, soon after.
In 2006, she made her screenwriting and directorial debut with the festival award-winning short, "Saturday Night Life," starring Melissa DeSousa. The film was selected for national broadcast by Showtime in February 2007 through the network's Black Filmmaker Showcase.
Her feature script "The Middle of Nowhere" was a finalist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Nicholls Fellowship, and was selected for IFP’s No Borders program in 2006. According to IMDB, Sanaa Lathan and Ruby Dee are attached in lead roles, with Oscar winner Ed Saxon producing.
In 2008, DuVernay made her feature directorial debut with the documentary, This is the Life, which offers an insider’s view of the underground urban music movement in Los Angeles. The film won audience awards in Los Angeles, Toronto and Seattle, and was invited to screen at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta in the summer of 2008. The film opened theatrically in Los Angeles on March 10, 2009, and premiered on Showtime in May 2009.
Currently, Ava DuVernay sits on Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa's Census 2010 Communications Steering Committee, as well as the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Public Relations Committee.
External links
- DVA Media + Marketing website
- Internet Movie Database
- "This Is The Life" feature film website
- Ava DuVernay: The “This Is the Life” Interview with Kam Williams
- "This is The Life" review by Ernest Hardy in LA WEEKLY
- "This is The Life" review in VARIETY
- "This is The Life" review by Robert Abele in LOS ANGELES TIMES
- Los Angeles Times "Next in Line" feature by Greg Braxton
- Variety "IFP slates projects for feature market"
- Urban Beauty Collective
- Los Angeles Times "Style videos could start a new wave of good hair days"
- Urban Thought Collective
- Reuters "Urban Thought Collective"