Ava DuVernay and Autumn Riley
Ava DuVernay born August 24 72, at Long Beach in California. DuVernay began to develop her creative and artistic side in her early years, thanks to Aunt Denise. The aunt who was a night shift nurse, let her pursue art literature and the theater in the daylight. The aunt introduced DuVernay to the film of 1961 West Side Story and DuVernay was captivated by it. DuVernay was instructed by her mom that the art form could be utilized as a tool for activism. DuVernay grew up with her mother who was socially aware and taught her how to utilize the arts as a means of expressing herself. DuVernay spent her summers in Lowndes County Alabama, where DuVernay's father was born and raised. The father of DuVernay's mother recalled Civil Rights marches that occurred on the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the close-by town Selma in Alabama. Her summers in Selma, Alabama would be the inspiration for her later an animated film on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. DuVernay was a graduate from Saint Joseph High School Lakewood California, in 1990. After graduating she attended her first year at the University of California Los Angeles which she graduated with qualifications in English as well as African American studies. DuVernay began to produce for broadcast journalism while she was still in college. Her first job was working as an assistant at CBS News in the O.J. Simpson trial. DuVernay remembers being assigned to observe the house of one member of the jury and go through their garbage. Her tasks left her disappointed by journalism and she decided to shift her focus towards the field of publicity. DuVernay was immediately hired from college to be a junior publicist at an unassuming studio. She started The DuVernay Agency, her PR firm, in 1999. Apart from PR, the agency also created a variety of marketing and lifestyle platforms, such as The Urban Beauty Collective, Urban Thought Collective, Urban Eye and HelloBeautiful. Autumn Riley.............................Autumn Riley was born in Los Angeles United States. Autumn Riley was born under the name of. The actress is well-known that has been in American Experience (1987), A More Perfect Union (2009) as well as other movies. Autumn was in the role in the roles of Rose and Anna Payne for A More Perfect Union.
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