Ava DuVernay
ABOUT AVA DUVERNAY
Award-winning filmmaker who has won major critical acclaim as the director of such films as 2012's Middle of Nowhere and 2014's Selma . For her work on Selma, she became the first African-American female to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director.
She grew up in Compton, California and double-majored in English and African American Studies at UCLA.
She founded the film distribution company The African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement to help with the distribution of independent African-American films.
She and her two sisters were raised by their mother and stepfather.
Her film Selma depicts the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches led by Martin Luther King Jr.
