Ava DuVernay and Autumn Riley
Ava DuVernay is a Californian born in Long beach on 24 August 1972. Her aunt Denise encouraged her passion for artistic expression and creative thinking. She worked as a night nurse to allow her mother the time she needed throughout the day to indulge in the passion of literature, art, as well as theatre. DuVernay was introduced to the 1961 movie West Side Story by her aunt. DuVernay was able to see through her mother's model of that art can be an instrument for activism. DuVernay was raised by a mother who was socially aware and taught her how to utilize the arts as a means to express herself. DuVernay was a child living with family members in Compton was a summer resident in Lowndes County Alabama in the house of her father's family. DuVernay's dad recalled the civil rights marches on the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the close-by town Selma in Alabama. DuVernay's summers spent in Alabama's Selma inspire her later to make the film about the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. DuVernay finished Saint Joseph High School at Lakewood in California in the year 1990. She attended University of California Los Angeles to obtain degrees in English in addition to African American Studies. DuVernay was in college at the time she began to become interested in production for the broadcast media. Her first job was as an intern at CBS News, during the O.J. Simpson trial. DuVernay recalls being tasked to observe the house of one member of the jury as well as go through their garbage. As a result of her tasks she was dissatisfied with journalistic work and entered the publicity business. DuVernay found a job immediately from college, working as a publicist in the young age of a studio. Her own Public Relations company, The DuVernay Agency was established in 1999. Her agency launched numerous lifestyle and promotion networks, including Urban Beauty Collective and Urban Eye. Autumn Riley.............................Autumn Riley was born in Los Angeles United States. Autumn Riley was born under the sign of. Autumn Riley, an American actress and popularly recognized for American Experience (1987), A More Perfect Union (2009) and A More Perfect Union (2009), was born under the sign of. Autumn was the Rose in A More Perfect Union and Anna Payne of American Experience.
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