Last year, the Oscar-nominated director was tapped to helm Disney’s A Wrinkle In Time, making her the first black female director to lead a $100 million film.
“Disney allowed me to open my imagination,” DuVernay, 45, says of the upcoming adaptation of the popular children’s sci-fi novel that is starring Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling. “They believed in my vision in a way that was so nourishing to me as a filmmaker. It’s very rare to come across that.”
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What a great and important article! The statement that the article's title is named after is bold and momentous; it draws people in and makes them face the ways in which they have shaped entertainment and the media for the worse. I think that it is very important for white people, especially those of us who are preparing to go into the worlds of film and television, theatre, etc. to confront Ava Duvernay's statement that the exclusion of the voices of people of color in public art is intentional. The quote in this piece that most struck me was when Duvernay says, "'You're basically saying, 'This is what we want, and this is what we're going to have.' There's no way you can tell me that there hasn't been effort put into exclusion'". And is this not true? Are white people not selfish and push their own images onto the rest of the population more than anyone else? Thank you Ava!
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