Whoever said black film is dead, think again! Last night at the Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony, Ava DuVernay became the first African-American woman to win US Directing Award: Dramatic for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere. The movie stars Emayatzy Corinealdi as a young woman struggling to maintain her identity while her husband […]
Director Ava DuVernay is back on the grind, continuing her crusade to elevate black cinema. After the smashing success of her 2011 feature debut, I Will Follow, DuVernay follows up with her second film, Middle of Nowhere. A young woman (Emayatzy Corinealdi) struggles to maintain her marriage and her identity when her husband (Omari Hardwick) […]
What happens when love takes you places you never thought you’d go? Or better yet, what happens when an independent Black female filmmaker drops her second film in as many years that has all the makings of another indie film phenomenon? You may remember writer/producer/director Ava DuVernay’s first film, I Will Follow, that almost overnight […]
