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A queer boy finds his culture in ‘Frybread Face and Me’

Billy Luther’s “Frybread Face and Me” walks a fine line. The story of an indigenous boy’s summer on a Navajo reservation, its tone is light. In the Navajo community it shows, crime and poverty are present, but they don’t come close to defining it.

Billy Luther’s Frybread Face and Me: Finding Self

Benny (Keir Tallman) keeps his hair long, wears his mother’s hat, loves TV soap operas and Fleetwood Mac, and plays with dolls, though they are, technically speaking, action figurines.

Why Ava DuVernay is a ‘different person’ after directing Origin

The filmmaker previews her new movie, starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson. Read More

New Release: I AM (from the Ava DuVernay feature film ‘ORIGIN’) performed by Aotearoa, New Zealand-based Māori Artist Stan Walker

Now streaming on Spotify! Watch the official music video! Listen Now

ARRAY launches Seat 16, an initiative to gift 16-year-olds tickets of ORIGIN, the newest film from Academy Award-winning director, Ava DuVernay.

This December, join ARRAY and gift $16 for a ticket to ORIGIN and digital learning companion to teens across the United States. Read More

Review: ‘Frybread Face and Me’ is a tender, coming-of-age exploration of reservation life and gender

Gentle comfort is something the entire world is in need of these days, and “Frybread Face and Me” delivers that in abundance.

From Golden Globes To Oscars, Hollywood Awards Season Looks Uncertain

The actors and writers strikes hobbled Hollywood studios for half of 2023 and left disarray in many corners of the business, none more so than that always odd annual gathering of self-congratulation known as awards season. Read More

Virginia Film Festival Announces its 2023 Award Winners

The Virginia Film festival opened with Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s lush biopic of the famous conductor Leonard Bernstein and then closed five days later with another music-based entry, the remarkable Jon Batiste documentary American Symphony. Read More

“Origin” And “American Symphony” Win Top Awards At Virginia Film Festival

Ava DuVernay‘s Origin and Matthew Heineman‘s American Symphony were among the top winners at the Virginia Film Festival, the four-day Charlottesville event that ran from October 25-29. Read More

ARRAY Releasing acquires heartwarming FRYBREAD FACE AND ME, the first narrative feature by award-winning Native American director Billy Luther.

FRYBREAD FACE AND ME follows two adolescent Navajo cousins as they bond during a summer on their grandmother’s ranch. Streaming on Netflix starting Friday, November 24. Read More

ARRAY Releasing acquires WHO WE BECOME, the searing documentary from first generation Filipinx-American filmmaker, PJ Raval.

WHO WE BECOME follows three young Filipino women grappling with an emerging global pandemic while forging unexpected connections with their families. Streaming on Netflix starting Friday, December 1. Read More

Media Advisory: Vital Voices 22nd Annual Global Leadership Awards Comes to Kennedy Center October 25

Ava DuVernay has been named the Global Trailblazer Award recipient for her work as a social impact filmmaker who celebrates and explores themes of human rights and racial equity. Read More

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