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Oscar-winning filmmaker and producer Ava DuVernay’s Array is expanding its imprint when it comes to inclusive storytelling. The Selma director and her social impact collective has partnered with Spotify for a multi-year partnership to produce exclusive scripted and unscripted original audio programming.
The notoriously drama-packed series follows the three estranged Bordelon siblings—Nova (Rutina Wesley), Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner), and Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe)—after they come together to work on their family’s sugarcane farm in Louisiana.
The pickup of ‘Queen Sugar’ comes a month before Ava DuVernay’s drama debuts its fifth season on the Discovery-owned cable network.
Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY has announced six executive additions and the promotion of veteran exec Mercedes Cooper ahead of the narrative change collective’s 10th anniversary.
Far too often, Black and other Film/TV crew members of color often hear a variation on trite excuse, “We keep hiring this white person because there aren’t a lot of [insert specific POC identifier here] directors, producers, cinematographers, production designers, costume designers, editors, etc.!”
Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chairman Joe Drake is restructuring the group with Jen Hollingsworth continuing as chief operating officer with expanding oversight to lead the strategy and innovation team.
Don’t be a drag, just be a queen! ARRAY Releasing has acquired Alaska is a Drag starring Martin L. Washington Jr. and directed by Shaz Bennett. Ava DuVernay’s company is set to release the drama on Netflix on December 31.
There were never any wanted signs outside the police academy or candlelight vigils in suburbia. The four police officers who shot and killed Amadou Diallo in his doorway 21 years ago were acquitted. One of them, Kenneth Boss, eventually got his gun back and earned a promotion.
Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing has dropped a trailer and a poster for the upcoming coming-of-age drama Ainu Mosir (“the quiet earth where humans dwell”) directed by Takeshi Fukunaga. The film is set to debut on Netflix and in select theaters on November 17.
Ava DuVernay is officially making her first show at HBO Max.
HBO Max has given a green light to ‘DMZ,’ a limited series from Ava DuVernay based on the DC comic of the same name.
Ava DuVernay and Roberto Patino’s DMZ has been handed a series order by HBO Max.