Ava DuVernay talks about her Array Alliance campus, a space where women and artists of color promote and showcase their work, in Historic Filipinotown.
The first thing that stands out about Ava DuVernay’s new movie theater at her Historic Filipinotown headquarters is the color of the seats. Rather than the classic burgundy of old-school movie houses, they shimmer with bright turquoise, resembling something out of “A Wrinkle in Time,” the Disney film she directed.
Establishing this campus, which will embody the change Ava is working for, will ensure a radical type of institutional support for generations to come.“Historically, having physical space has been monumental to ensuring that a community can survive,” said Bradley in a phone interview. “Establishing this campus, which will embody the change Ava is working for, will ensure a radical type of institutional support for generations to come.
“The idea was to be disruptive in every system within which artists, especially artists of color and women, have to work in this industry,” she said. “Every system has roadblocks for people like us, whether it is in acquisition, production, distribution, exhibition, marketing, crewing up.... So what we were looking to do was disrupt those systems so that we create normalcy and momentum.”
Ford Foundation President Darren Walker first encouraged DuVernay to launch a charity dedicated to social impact goals in 2016. He paid for a consultant to guide her through the process, which she initially found intimidating, she said. The organization seeks to raise money from high-net-worth donors and foundations, according to public founding documents.“I was scared of the nonprofit world,” said the publicist-turned-filmmaker. “I didn’t know anything about it.
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