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Online Learning Companions
ARRAY 101 is an online education initiative delivering dynamic social impact learning guides for our ARRAY Releasing films and ARRAY Filmworks original content. Available to educational organizations and institutions and to the public for free, ARRAY 101 expands our mission to amplify storytelling by Black artists, people of color and women directors of all kinds. The learning companions provoke important conversations among students, educators, families, and communities around who we are and how we engage in the world.
IN THE NEWS
Ava DuVernay’s Array Teams With Google To Create Feature Film Grant For Underrepresented Creatives
Ava Duvernay’s Array has partnered with Google to create a new $500,000 feature film grant available to up-and-coming creatives from historically underrepresented communities.
Artist Funded by Ava Duvernay’s LEAP Initiative Spotlights Killing of Philando Castile With Interactive Tablescape
Food activist Jocelyn Jackson, co-founder of People’s Kitchen Collective and founder of JUSTUS Kitchen, talks about her latest installation, ‘FIXED PRICE MENU’. The unique project, funded by Ava DuVernay’s LEAP initiative, spotlights the life of Philando Castile and Officer Jeronimo Yanez, who killed him during a routine traffic stop.
‘Would You Kill God Too?’ W.J. Lofton’s New Poem, Commissioned by Ava DuVernay, Puts a Spotlight on Breonna Taylor’s Killers
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay counts herself as one of the many people inspired by W.J. Lofton’s powerful visual poem “We Ask For Fire”—in which he repeats the words, “the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor are at home with their families”—as protesters around the world demanded justice following her death last March.
Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Announces Executive Expansion Ahead of 10th Anniversary
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.