Leadership Outside the Hollywood Playbook: Ava DuVernay
What does it take to change an industry from the inside out? Hollywood trailblazer Ava DuVernay joins hosts Karen Blackett CBE and Katie Lloyd in Paris.
Known for ground-breaking projects like Selma, 13th, When They See Us, and Origin, Ava has spent her career bypassing traditional Hollywood gatekeepers.
In this conversation, she breaks down how a decade spent as a film publicist provided her with the insider blueprint to create her own multi-faceted organisation, Array, transforming how inclusive stories are financed, produced, and distributed.
Ava challenges conventional corporate ideas of…
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