Jeffrey Brown:
On Twitter, the 45-year-old DuVernay calls herself a girl from Compton who got to make a Disney movie.
Today, she’s a top director, producer, and screenwriter, as well as film marketer and distributor, actively working to change the culture of Hollywood.
Her 2012 film, “Middle of Nowhere,” made her the first African-American woman to win the best director prize at the Sundance Film Festival. She received wider fame and recognition in 2015 with her historical drama “Selma,” which received an Oscar nomination for best picture.
The next year, she made “13th,” a critically acclaimed documentary about the intersection of race and mass incarceration. And she’s the creator of the OWN Network television drama “Queen Sugar,” set in Louisiana on a family-owned sugarcane farm.
As the show’s executive producer, DuVernay has made a point to hire all women directors.
With “A Wrinkle in Time,” DuVernay becomes the first African-American woman to lead a $100 million film production.
Is it surprising that that’s still a thing?
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