Maggie McGrath is the editor of ForbesWomen, the Forbes vertical dedicated to covering all angles of female entrepreneurship, and the author of the ForbesWomen newsletter.
With $15 Trillion In Spending Power And Decades Of Wisdom, Women Over 50 Are An Incredible Untapped ResourceThe first Black woman to direct a $100 million-grossing film is shunning the studios and their rules — and turning to philanthropists like Melinda French Gates.
What was the big deal about the deadline? The 2024 U.S. presidential election. And mission accomplished, so far: “Origin” debuted at the 2023 Venice Film Festival and hit Hulu earlier this summer. DuVernay says she’s not trying to influence the outcome of the race but instead generate dialogue between people who might have become “closed off” from each other.
“More often than not, the stories that get told in our country—and the people who tell them—represent only a small slice of the population. Ava is completely disrupting that model. With her latest film, ‘Origin,’ she challenged the way films are traditionally made and proved that audiences are hungry for stories centered on justice and equality. I was so proud to help support that project,” French Gates toldin an email.
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