Filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s feature work includes the Academy Award-winning historical drama Selma; the Academy Award-nominated criminal justice documentary 13th; the Sundance Best Director Award win for her micro-budgeted romance Middle of Nowhere; and Disney’s A Wrinkle In Time, which made her the highest-grossing Black woman director in American box office history. In 2019, her four-part television series When They See Us was honored with 16 Emmy nominations. DuVernay’s critically acclaimed TV series Queen Sugar is the longest-running Black family drama series by a Black woman creator in American television history. DuVernay amplifies films by people of color and women of all kinds through her nonprofit narrative change collective ARRAY, which is the winner of the Peabody Institutional Award. The filmmaker sits on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences representing the director’s branch. She is a vice president of the Directors Guild of America and an advisory board member of the American Film Institute. DuVernay has previously served on the juries of Cannes Film Festival and Mumbai Film Festival. She is based in Los Angeles. Special Guests 2024 Ira Sachs Liv Tyler Alexander Payne James Ivory Leos Carax Special Guests in Other Editions Kathleen Kennedy Jodie Foster James Ivory Luis Mandoki Jerry Schatzberg Maribel Verdú Laurent Cantet Frank Marshall Claire Denis Barry Jenkins Ciro Guerra en Rosalie Varda J. M. Coetzee Luc Dardenne Robert Redford Alfonso Cuarón Damien Chazelle Paul Weitz Patrice Leconte Julie Bertuccelli Carol Littleton John Bailey Olivier Assayas Lynne Ramsay Al Gore Michel Hazanavicius Bob Rafelson Fred Kelemen Aaron Eckhart Casey Affleck Giada Colagrande Audrey Tautou Isabelle Huppert Tim Roth Rodrigo García Peter Greenaway Pawel Pawlikowski Pierre Rissient Amos Gitai Juliette Binoche Edward James Olmos Robert Rodriguez John Sayles Alejandro Jodorowsky Danny Trejo Bruno Dumont Quentin Tarantino Pablo Larraín José María Prado Whit Stillman Dieter Kosslick Geraldine Chaplin Seifollah Samadian Gregory Nava Sally Potter Abbas Kiarostami Damián Alcázar Demián Bichir Elena Anaya Thierry Frémaux Marisa Paredes Michel Gondry Volker Schlöndorff Luis Valdez Béla Tarr Lucrecia Martel Javier Bardem Edgar Ramírez Fernando Trueba Doris Dörrie Serge Bromberg Terry Gilliam Julio Alemán Kelly Reichardt Jennifer Lawrence Steven Soderbergh Michael Nyman Nicolas Philibert Todd Haynes Stephen Frears Héctor Babenco Gael García Bernal Carlos Reygadas Alejandro González Iñárritu Cristian Mungiu Bertrand Tavernier Arthur Penn Jean-Claude Carrière Guillermo del Toro Mike Hodges Diego Luna Tommy Lee Jones Valeria Sarmiento Raúl Ruiz Gus Van Sant Manoel De Oliveira Fernando Vallejo Julia Ormond Salma Hayek Werner Herzog Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s feature work includes the Academy Award-winning historical drama Selma; the Academy Award-nominated criminal justice documentary 13th; the Sundance Best Director Award win for her micro-budgeted romance Middle of Nowhere; and Disney’s A Wrinkle In Time, which made her the highest-grossing Black woman director in American box office history. In 2019, her four-part television series When They See Us was honored with 16 Emmy nominations. DuVernay’s critically acclaimed TV series Queen Sugar is the longest-running Black family drama series by a Black woman creator in American television history. DuVernay amplifies films by people of color and women of all kinds through her nonprofit narrative change collective ARRAY, which is the winner of the Peabody Institutional Award. The filmmaker sits on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences representing the director’s branch. She is a vice president of the Directors Guild of America and an advisory board member of the American Film Institute. DuVernay has previously served on the juries of Cannes Film Festival and Mumbai Film Festival. She is based in Los Angeles.
