Ava DuVernay & Laura Poitras Are Launching Their Own Film Studios

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Now this is some exciting news worth covering. In two separate reports, it has been announced this week that Ava DuVernay and Laura Poitras, two very talented filmmakers, will be launching their own film studios / distribution collectives. Poitras, who just won the Academy Award for Citizenfour earlier this year, is launching Field of Vision, “a documentary unit that will commission and create 40 to 50 episodic and short-form nonfiction films each year.” DuVernay, whose recent film Selma was nominated for two Academy Awards, is relaunching the “African American Film Festival Releasing Movement” collective as a company called Array, with the intent to release indie films that have trouble finding their way in front of audiences. ›››

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