Average ROI: 325%
ROI Rank: 357
 
Ava DuVernay is in the top 7% of movie producers in the Fresh Kernels Database! She’s definitely a B-List producer, but she’s still making waves in the industry.
 

Ava DuVernay is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and distributor. She is the first African-American woman to win the Best Director Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for her film Middle of Nowhere. She is also the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director and the first black female director to have a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. She is the founder of the film distribution company ARRAY and has directed and produced numerous critically acclaimed films and television series, including Selma, 13th, Queen Sugar, and When They See Us.
 

Ava DuVernay’s birthday is August 24, 1972.
 

Ava DuVernay was born in Long Beach, California.
 

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