Roland Martin caught up with director Ava DuVernay during the Color Of Change’s 10th Anniversary Gala. During their chat, DuVernay discussed the relaunch of The…

Ava DuVernay is widening her distribution company, AFFRM, and relaunching under a whole new name, Array. Her new and improved company will include films made…

Black directors unite, and let’s all get down. That could have been the rallying call for all of the Black excellence that took over Twitter…

  Hello Beautiful favorite Ava DuVernay is once again making moves, but this time she’s behind the keyboard instead of behind the camera. DuVernay and over 40 of her amazing fellow Black filmmakers are participating in a Rebel-A-Thon on Twitter to raise awareness about DuVernay’s Black film collective AAFRM (specifically the #ARRAY membership drive) and to generally […]

As previously reported Selma director Ava DuVernay is supposedly in talks with Marvel about working her magic on an upcoming superhero film. However, the name of another director in the…

ARRAY, the multi-platform distribution label of the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM), announced the acquisition of Slamdance 2014 Official Documentary Selection, “Vanishing Pearls.” Marking…

Tim Story is one of Hollywood’s best kept secrets. While the fight for more Black directors behind the camera continues,  Story has helmed a major…

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When the time came for the country to elect a new president, Obama wasn’t the only one feeling like they needed a change. In the…

Director Ava DuVernay continues the revolution in black cinema with KINYARWANDA, the second release of the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM).  AFFRM’s first release, I Will Follow, directed by DuVernay (starring Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Omari Hardwick), won the 2010 UrbanWorld Film Festival Award for Best Narrative Feature, and received glowing reviews from critics and […]

Director Ava DuVernay continues the revolution in black cinema with KINYARWANDA, the second release of the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM).  AFFRM’s first release,…

On Sunday, January 23, 2011, AFFRM hosted the first of our trio of dinners for black filmakers and filmthinkers at Sundance Film Festival.

HelloBeautiful's co-founder Ava Duvernay is a filmmaker and publicist who hopes to spread the distribution of black-themed films with her new organization, African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement.