Ava DuVernay has graduated from covering the contentious OJ Simpson murder trial as a television news intern, to switching to being a publicist to finally making movies. In a short span, DuVernay has become a feted filmmaker for projects beginning with I will Follow in 2011, Middle of Nowhere and most visibly Selma, a movie about the Selma to Montgomery March led by Martin Luther King. Selma bagged two Academy Awards this year (DuVernay wasn't nominated as the movie's director) and cast her firmly in the spotlight. Visiting India as the head of the International Competition jury at Mumbai Academy of The Moving Image (MAMI) Festival, DuVernay spoke to Rahul Sachitanand on a variety of issues,...
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