Ava Duvernay（艾娃·杜威内）

导演 编剧 突破障碍的人

她不仅是历史中的闪光点，而是创造了历史

艾娃是第一位在圣丹斯电影节上获得最佳导演奖的非裔美籍女导演。她更是凭借《塞尔玛游行》（Selma）获得奥斯卡最佳导演和最佳编剧提名。她的市场和公关公司DVA Media Marketing已经运作了100多部电影和电视节目的宣传。她创建了电影公司Array，举办非裔美国电影节，为黑人独立电影进入院线铺路。杜威内相信成功的生活包含完成一个又一个挑战。据她称，这个世界观是她从UCLA培养出的，那时她还是非洲学生会的成员，为UCLA的非裔美国学生杂志（NOMMO）撰稿。

Ava DuVernay

UCLA 1990-1995

She didn’t just shine a light on history. She made it.

Ava DuVernay is the first female African-American to win the Best Director Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and, famously, the director and co-screenwriter of the Academy Award-nominated hit Selma. Her marketing and PR agency, DVA Media +Marketing, has handled projects for more than 100 film and TV shows. And DuVernay was the organizer of film company Array, which puts on African-American film festivals and orchestrates theatrical releases for black independent films. DuVernay believes that a successful life includes the ability to pivot from one challenge to another, a worldview she says was nurtured at UCLA, where she was a member of the Afrikan Student Union and wrote for UCLA’s African-American student magazine, NOMMO.