In his feature film debut The Burial of Kojo, Blitz Bazawule tells a story of two brothers through the gaze of a gifted girl who travels between gorgeous lands that exist in life and death. It’s not your ordinary narrative film, but a cinematic fable that is surreal, magical and infused with Afrofuturistic elements…

EXCLUSIVE: Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing continues to give shine to underrepresented voices and stories by people of color and women with their latest acquisition, The Burial of Kojo from musical artist and filmmaker Samuel “Blitz” Bazawule. This marks the 22nd acquisition for ARRAY which has become an epicenter of…

EXCLUSIVE: You have to give Ava DuVernay credit for great timing today as the A Wrinkle in Time director's ARRAY acquired the Sundance Film Festival documentary MERATA. The pick-up by the film collective comes on the very same day that the Robert Redford founded fest announced the latest recipients of the annual…

Much of Hollywood will be locked in on the Oscar nominations Tuesday, but some A-listers will be focusing on a bigger picture late that day. One day after the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, Ava DuVernay's ARRAY will host a National Day of Racial Healing event to examine efforts to end discrimination and…

Filmmaker Akin Omotoso’s latest film Vaya first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016 to critical praise and continued to make its rounds around the festival circuit and earned him the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director before landing at Ava DuVernay’s Array. The film is set for a…

EXCLUSIVE: Array Releasing and ARRAY founder Ava DuVernay announced Wednesday that they have acquired the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand rights to the Lisa France documentary Roll With Me. Marking her docu debut, the film will premiere December 1 on Netflix and will be accompanied by…

EXCLUSIVE: Array Releasing continues to expand its inclusive slate of films and storytelling with the Black and LGBTQ-centric Jewel’s Catch One, the second feature from female filmmaker C. Fitz. Array Founder Ava DuVernay announced today that they have acquired the worldwide distribution rights documentary, which…

EXCLUSIVE: The big budget A Wrinkle In Time comes out on March 9 but director Ava DuVernay is still tending to her indie aims with a couple of executive moves at her ARRAY film collective. Former Producing Artistic Director of the BlackStar Film Festival Maori Holmes has been appointed Executive Director of the…

EXCLUSIVE: With Oscar and Emmy nominations for 13th, Ava DuVernay and Netflix have had a pretty good track record together with documentaries. Now, the two are in business again with Teach Us All. ARRAY, the film collective founded by the A Wrinkle In Time director several years ago, has acquired the timely education…

EXCLUSIVE: If Ava DuVernay wasn't busy enough with Season 2 of Queen Sugar debuting next month and post-production on Disney's A Wrinkle In Time, the Oscar nominee is still keeping her hand in the indie world with ARRAY's acquisition of The House on Coco Road. The sixteenth pick-up by the seven-year old DuVernay…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off its L.A. Muse Award and world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival last year, coming-of-age dramedy Namour has been picked up by Ava DuVernay's film collective Array. "Writer-director Heidi Saman’s portrayal of frustration and anxiety within the American immigrant community is heartfelt yet…

EXCLUSIVE: It's been a busy week for Ava DuVernay with the director's $100 million budgeted Disney pic A Wrinkle In Time awarded over $18 million in California tax credits and her Queen Sugar EP'd OWN series snagging an early Season 2 pick-up. Now the Selma helmer's film collective ARRAY has acquired inner-city UK…