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Jan 18, 2021 · Throughout its domestic theatrical run, director Ava DuVernay and writer Paul Webb’s Selma had but a single day where it earned upwards of $5 million. That was not coincidentally January 19 ...
Dec 24, 2014 · Ava DuVernay’s Selma, a retelling of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic 1965 Freedom Marches from Selma to Montgomery, opens in limited release this Christmas.(The movie will get a wide ...
Oct 8, 2017 · By allowing Webb, who she did not name, to take credit for the script, DuVernay said she “invited, energetically, the largest, most bullshit controversy” of any movie in the Oscars race that year. “Selma” drew criticism from a former Johnson staffer for allegedly downplaying the president’s role in advocating for black voting rights.
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Jun 5, 2020 · Ava DuVernay directing DP Bradford Young on the set of Selma (2014) By avoiding the approach of a traditional biopic, DuVernay accomplishes something more unusual: a portrait of process and strategy that shows the way in which these can both work with and against a purely emotional outlook. This was also one of the key themes in her previous ...
Dec 23, 2014 · Director Ava DuVernay speaks to NPR's Michele Norris about making Selma, a searing depiction of the battle for voting rights — and the first major movie about the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Jan 9, 2015 · DuVernay also included Diane Nash (Tessa Thompson), a brilliant young strategist who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was one of the driving forces behind the Selma Voting Rights Movement. Lesser known is Amelia Boynton (Lorraine Touissant), another civil rights leader who extended an invitation to King to lend her hand in Selma.
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Jan 8, 2015 · Ava DuVernay, director of 'Selma'. DuVernay says the heart of the story was the look on the marchers' faces as Alabama state troopers attacked them on what became known as "Bloody Sunday ...
