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Ava DuVernay Makes Dig At Donald Trump’s Re-Election; Dives Into Limited ‘Origin’ Release: “This Is A Difficult Film For Me” – Marrakech Film Festival
Ava Duvernay Makes Dig At Donald Trump’s Re-Election; Dives Into Limited ‘Origin’ Release: “This Is A Difficult Film For Me” – Marrakech Film Festival
Ava DuVernay has slammed Donald Trump’s re-election as a U.S. president, in spite of a criminal charges against him, saying that that black people arrested on smaller crimes land years of jail time. The subject of Trump’s re-election arose in a discussion on her Netflix-backed 2016 documentary 13th, exploring racial injustice in the U.S. penal system, and the fact its prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans. In a wide-ranging conversation, DuVernay also about talked her childhood in Compton and the light bulb moment while working as a publicist on the set of Michael Mann’s Collateral, when she decided she want to be director.
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