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EXCLUSIVE: Upon its 10th anniversary as a successful agent of change in Hollywood, Ava DuVernay’s Array is adding six executives to the company. Array’s new hires include Anne-Marie McGintee as the VP Scripted Programming, coming from Netflix, and MJ Caballero as VP Physical Production from Blumhouse. McGintee and…

Leading US genre festival Beyond Fest has set a slate of programming comprising 39 features ahead of its return to theaters between September 29 and October 11. The festival will open with the West Coast premiere of Julia Ducornau's Palme d'Or Winner Titane, which will be screened from a never-before-seen 35mm print…

NBC has set a fall premiere date for Home Sweet Home, a new series from Ava DuVernay, her Array Filmworks and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television. Described as a family social experiment, Duvernay’s first unscripted series will bow at 8 p.m. Friday, October 15. It’s also the Emmy winner and Oscar nominee’s first…

The ever-burgeoning slate of Ava DuVernay's media collective has a new boss, and it's a familiar face. Paul Garnes, Queen Sugar executive producer and Array’s Head of Physical Production, is now the President of Array Filmworks, the Oscar-nominated DuVernay revealed Thursday. With previous Filmworks chief Sarah…

Ava DuVernay's arts and social impact collective Array has taken the wraps off plans for its first masterclass, headlined by Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima. Liberated Territory: A Masterclass by Haile Gerima will be a five-day workshop in Los Angeles that explores the catalyst of storytelling and a story's structure…

EXCLUSIVE: "I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I truly treasure the Peabody because of the way in which it is determined, said Array founder Ava DuVernay on Tuesday as she and the decade-old collective were unveiled as this year's recipient of the Peabody's Institutional Award. Citing the "tremendous honor,"…

Ava Duvernay’s Array has partnered with Google to create a new $500,000 feature film grant available to up-and-coming creatives from historically underrepresented communities. The endowment, referred to as The Array + Google Feature Film Grant, will prove funds allowing the recipient to produce their first full-length…

Endeavor Content has hired Sharon Liggins to the newly-created position of SVP, Communications. Her appointment is effective immediately and she’ll be based in LA. The publicity vet will oversee the strategic direction of communications activities across the Endeavor Content’s divisions, including film and television…

Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing has acquired the documentary In Our Mothers’ Gardens, the feature film debut of director, curator, and author Shantrelle P. Lewis. The film is set to debut theatrically in select cities and on Netflix starting fittingly on Mother’s Day, May 6. In Our Mothers’ Gardens celebrates the…

Jeff Tobler is exiting his role as SVP, Television Publicity, Communications and Social Media for Warner Bros. Worldwide Television for a new opportunity. He is joining the narrative change collective Array as Chief Marketing Officer. Reporting to Array President Tilane Jones and founder Ava DuVernay, Tobler will be…

Ava DuVernay has revealed that a podcast about the Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP) is her first podcast series for Spotify. It comes after the When They See Us and Selma filmmaker set a multi-year partnership with the audio platform in January. DuVernay is launching LEAP Files with Spotify, as revealed…

EXCLUSIVE: “I have to create and be a part of the change that I want to see, and so, after I go through the period of being on every panel and being in every article about diversity, I stopped doing that a couple years ago, and I said, no more panels," Ava DuVernay says of the impetus to create Array Crew, which…